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 Plant namekovidāra
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameBauhinia purpurea L. - please click to view full record
 Latin name (synonyms)Bauhinia variegata L.
 Sanskrit namekāñcanāra, kovidāra
 Hindi namekāñcanār
 Bengali namekāñcan, rakta kāñcan
 Tamil namecikappu mantārai
 Malayalam namemandāram, cuvannamandāram, malayakatti, koṅṅu
 English nameMountain Ebony, Butterfly tree
 Search occurrencekāñcanāra, kovidāra, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 314)
m. easily to be split, or to be split with difficulty (? cf. kuddala, kuddāla), Bauhinia variegata, Gobh.; MBh.; R.; Suśr.; Ritus.; one of the trees of paradise, Hariv. 7169; Lalit.


 
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