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Plant name	śaṅkhinī
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Canscora decussata (Roxb.) Roem. & Schult. - please click to view full record
Latin name (synonyms)	Pladera decussata Roxb.
Sanskrit name	śaṅkhinī, śaṅkhapuṣpī
Hindi name	śaṃkhaphūli
Malayalam name	śamkhapuṣpī, kañcankora
English name	Canscora
Search occurrence	śaṅkhinī, śaṅkhapuṣpī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1048) śaṅkhinī, f. of prec.; mother of pearl, Bālar.; a partic. plant, Suśr.; Car.; ŚārṅgS. (accord. to L. Andropogon Aciculatus, Cissampelos Hexandra = śveta-cukrā, śveta-puṃnāga, and śveta-vṛndā); a partic. vein (nāḍī), Cat.; N. of one of the four classes into which females are divided (the other three being citriṇī, padminī, and hastinī), RTL. 389; N. of a Śakti worshipped by Buddhists, Kālac.; a kind of semidivine being or fairy (upadevatā-viśeṣa), W.; N. of a Tīrtha, MBh.

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