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 Latin nameVigna mungo (L.) Hepper
 FamilyLeguminosae
 Identified with (Lat)Phaseolus mungo L.
 Identified with (Skt)māṣa
 Identified with (Hin)urad
 Identified with (Tam)uḷuntu
 Identified with (Mal)uḻunnu
 Identified with (Eng)Black gram
 Botanical infoAn annual plant cultivated all over India, leaves trifoliate, leaflets ovate, entire, flowers small, yellow, fruits cylindrical pods, hairy with short hooked beak, seeds 1 - 4 per pod
 Search occurrencemāṣa, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageVigna mungo (L.) Hepper in Google image search
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 814)
māṣa, m. (n. g. ardharcādi) a bean, RV. &c. &c. (sg. the plant; pl. the fruit; in later times = Phaseolus Radiatus, a valued kind of pulse having seeds marked with black and grey spots); a partic. weight of gold (= 5 Kṛishṇalas= 1/10 Suvārṇa; the weight in common use is said to be about 17 grains troy), Mn., Yājñ.; a cutaneous eruption resembling beans, L.; a fool, blockhead, L.; N. of a man g. bAhv-Adi; pl. (with or scil. akRSTAH) 'wild beans'N. of a ṛishi-gaṇs (the children of Su-rabhi, to whom, RV. ix, 86, 1-10 is ascribed) RAnukr., R., Hariv.; (ī), f. see below.


 
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