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 Latin nameSolanum anguivi Lam.
 FamilySolanaceae
 Identified with (Lat)Solanum indicum L.
 Identified with (Skt)bṛhatī, vṛhatī, siṃhī
 Identified with (Hin)barhaṇṭā, birhaṭṭā
 Identified with (Tam)karimuḷḷi, puttiriccuṇṭai
 Identified with (Mal)puttiriccuṇṭa, ceṛucuṇṭa, ceṛuvaḻutina
 Identified with (Eng)Poison berry
 Botanical infoAn undershrub growing throughout India in the plains, leaves simple, large, flowers blue in extra-axillary cymes, peduncles stellatery hairy and prickly, fruits globose berries
 Search occurrencebṛhatī, vṛhatī, siṃhī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageSolanum anguivi Lam. in Google image search
 Encyclopedias &
 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 735)
bṛhatī, f. fr. bRkatN. of a partic. metre of 36 (orig. 8+ 8+12+8) syllables or (later) anymetre containing 36 syllables (ifc. -tIka, mfn. ), RV., RPrāt., AV. Br. &c.; a symbolical expression for the number 36 ŚrS.; (pl.) N. of partic. bricks forming part of the sacrificial fire-altar, ŚBr. Śulbas.; a partic. Solanum (-dvaya n. two species of it), SalṅkhGṛ., Suśr.; a part of the body between the breast and backbone, Suśr.; (du.) heaven and earth, Gal.; speech (a sense inferred from certain passages); a mantle, wrapper, L.; a place containing water, reservoir, L.; the lute of Nārada or Viśvā-vasu, L.; N. of two wks.; N. of sev. women, Hariv., BhP.

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1213)
siṃhī 1, f. a lioness, RV., VS., TS. &c.; N. of the Uttara-vedi (nom. siMhīḥ), TS.; of various plants (Solanum Jacquini; Solanum Melongena; Gendarussa Vulgaris; Hemionitis Cordifolia; Phaseolus Trilobus) PārGṛ., Suśr.; a vein, L.; N. of the mother of Rāhu (= siMhikā), L.


 
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