Botanical info | A pubescent annual plant up to 90 cm high, cultivated all over India in the plains up to 1200 m, leaves large, thin, sparsely hairy, flowers white, pink or purplish with yellow marks in racemes in the leaf axils, fruits quadrangular, oblong, compressed capsules, seeds black, brown or white |
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 448) tila, m. Sesamum indicum (its blossom is compared to the nose, Gīt. x, 14 Siṃhās.; cf. -puSpa), sesamum seed (much used in cookery; supposed to have originated from Vishṇu's sweat-drops, Hcat. i, 6, 137 & 142), AV. (-la, xviii, 4, 32), VS., ŚBr. &c.; a mole, Kālid.; a small particle, MBh. &c.; the right lung, ŚārṅgS. v, 42; pl. N. of a ch. of PSarv. (cf. kRSNa-, carma-, SaNDha-). Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 545) eḷḷu: 01 1. To ignore, disregard; 2. To ridicule, deride, laugh at; 3. To equal 02 Sesame
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