| Latin name | Punica granatum L. | | Family | Lythraceae | | Identified with (Skt) | dāḍima | | Identified with (Hin) | anār | | Identified with (Tam) | mātaḷai, mātaḷam | | Identified with (Mal) | uṛumāmpaḻam, tāḷimātaḷam, mātaḷam, mātaḷanārakam | | Identified with (Eng) | Pomegranate | | Botanical info | A large deciduous undershrub, cultivated all over India, leaves opposite, glabrous, flowers scarlet red or yellow, fruits globose, crowned by the persistent calyx, rind coriaceous and woody, interior septate with membranous walls containing numerous seeds, seeds red and fleshy | | Search occurrence | dāḍima, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | | See plant's image | Punica granatum L. in Google image search | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 475)
dāḍima, mf(ī)n. the pomegranate tree, MBh., Hariv., Suśr. (n. also its fruit; -mAni-danś, to bite pomegranates, said of a hard or unwelcome task Vām. iii, 2, 14); small cardamoms, L.; mfn. being on the pomegńpomegranates tree, Suśr.
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