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Latin name	Valeriana jatamansi Jones
Family	Valerianaceae
Identified with (Lat)	Valeriana wallichii DC.
Identified with (Skt)	tagara, tagaraka, nata
Identified with (Hin)	tagar
Identified with (Tam)	takaram
Identified with (Mal)	takaram
Identified with (Eng)	Indian valerian
Botanical info	A tufted, hairy, herbaceous perennial plant growing in the Himalayas and Khasi hills up to 3000 m, basal radical leaves long-stalked, flowers white or tinged with pink in terminal corymbs, fruits oblong, compressed, hairy or nearly hairless
Search occurrence	tagara, tagaraka, nata, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 525) nata, mfn. bent, bowed, curved, inclined, inclining, RV. &c. &c.; bowing to, saluting (acc. or gen.), BhP. vi, 9, 40; v, 18, 4; depressed, sunk, flat; deep, hanging down, MBh., Kāv. &c.; ifc. bent down by or turned towards (cf. vAma- add.); cerebralized (as the letter n cf. nati), RPrāt.; m. n. Tabernaemontana Coronaria, L.; n. zenith-distance at meridian transit, Sūryas.; hour-angle or distance in time from meridian ib.; inclination ib. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 431) tagara n. (m., L.) = -raka, Kauś. 16, MBh. xiii, 5042, Buddh., Suśr., VarBṛS. lxxvii, 5 ff.; n. = -pura, Romakas.; (ī), f. = takarī q.v. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 432) tagaraka, Tabernaemontana coronaria and a fragrant powder prepared from, it, VarBṛS. li. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1705) takaram: 01 1. Wax-flower dog-bane, Tabernae montana; 2. Aromatic unguent for the hair; 3. Fragrance 02 1. Tin, white lead; 2. Metal sheet coated with tin 03 The cavity of the heart 04 Young of an animal

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