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 Plant namecakṣuṣyā
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameCassia absus L. - please click to view full record
 Latin name (synonyms)Chamaecrista absus (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
 Sanskrit namekulatthikā, cakṣuṣyā
 Hindi namecākṣū, bankultthī
 Tamil namemulaippālvirai, kāṭṭukōl
 Malayalam namekariṅkoḷḷa
 Search occurrencekulatthikā, cakṣuṣyā, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 382)
cakṣuṣya, mfn. pleasing to the eyes, wholesome for the eyes or the eyesight, MBh. xiii, 3423; Suśr.; Hcat.; agreeable to the eyes, pleasing, goodlooking, beautiful, ChUp. iii, 13, 8; Car. i, 5, 89; Rājat. iii, 493; "being in any one’s (instr.) range of sight" and "dear to any one (instr.)", Śiś. viii, 57; m. a kind of collyrium (extracted from Amomum antorhiza), L.; Pandanus odoratissimus, L.; Hyperanthera Moringa, L.; also N. of other plants (puṇḍarīka, kanaka), L.; n. two kinds of collyrium (kharparī-tuttha and sauvīrāñjana), L.; the small shrub prapauṇḍarīka, L.; (ā), f. a kind of collyrium (calx of brass or a blue stone), L.; Pandanus odoratissimus, L.; Glycine labialis, L.; = °kṣurbahala, L.


 
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