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Plant name	śālmalī
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Bombax ceiba L. - please click to view full record
Latin name (synonyms)	Bombax malabaricum DC.
Sanskrit name	śālmalī
Prakrit name	saṃbali, sāmali
Hindi name	śemal, semul
Bengali name	śimul, lāl śimul
Tamil name	ilavu, pūlā, muḷḷilavu
Malayalam name	ilavu, muḷḷilavu, elavu, pūḷamaram
English name	Red silk cotton tree
Search occurrence	śālmalī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1068) mf. (or -lī, f.; cf. śalmali) the Seemul or silk-cotton tree, Bombax heptaphyllum or Salmalia malabarica (a lofty and thorny tree with red flowers; its thorns are supposed to be used for torture in one of the hells cf. kūta-ś-, or it may stand for the N. of that hell) Mn. MBh. &c.; one of the 7 Dvīpas or great divisions of the known continent (so called from the above tree said to grow there; it is surrounded by the sea of ghee or clarified butter) MBh. Pur.; patr. of a man (f. -lyā) g. krauḍyādi; N. of a son of Avikshit MBh.; of another man descended from Agasti Hcat.; (ī) f. see below. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1068) f. = śālmali (above); N. of a river in the infernal regions Mn. iv, 90; of another river R.; of one of the śaktis of Vishṇu MW.

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