| Latin name | Solanum surattense Burm.f. | | Family | Solanaceae | | Identified with (Lat) | Solanum xanthocarpum Schrad. & Wendl. | | Identified with (Skt) | kaṇṭakārī, nidigdhikā | | Identified with (Hin) | reṃganī, kaṭelī, kaṭṭāy | | Identified with (Tam) | kaṇṭaṉkattiri | | Identified with (Mal) | kaṇṭakāriccuṇṭa, kaṇṭakārivaḻutana, kaṇṭankattiri | | Identified with (Eng) | Yellow-berried nightshade | | Botanical info | A suffrutescent perennial undershrub, growing in dry situations throughout India, zigzag branches spread close to the ground covered with strong, broad, sharp yellowish white prickles, leaves armed with yellow sharp prickles, flowers blue, fruits berries, yellow or white | | Search occurrence | kaṇṭakārī, nidigdhikā, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | | See plant's image | Solanum surattense Burm.f. in Google image search | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 245)
kaṇṭakāra, m. &76580[245,2] a particular plant, L.; (ī), f. Solanum Jacquini, Suśr.; Bombax Heptaphyllum, L.; Flacourtia Sapida, L. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 548)
nidigdha, mfn. (√ dih) smeared plastered; clinging to, ŚBr.; heaped or piled up, L.; (ā), f. cardamoms.,
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