• Pandanus Homepage • Database of Plants • Publications • Sanskrit E-texts • Seminar of Indian Studies •

Cassia occidentalis L. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

Back to the list of plant names

Latin name	Cassia occidentalis L.
Family	Caesalpiniaceae
Identified with (Lat)	Senna occidentalis (L.) Link
Identified with (Skt)	kāsamarda
Identified with (Hin)	kasaumdī, bārīkasaumdī
Identified with (Tam)	takarai, pēyāvirai, poṉṉāvirai
Identified with (Mal)	ponnāvīram, ponnārīvīram
Identified with (Eng)	Negro coffee, Stinking weed
Search occurrence	kāsamarda, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
See plant's image	Cassia occidentalis L. in Google image search
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 281) kāsamarda, m. "cough-destroying", Cassia Sophora, Suśr.; a remedy against cough (an acid preparation, mixture of tamarinds and mustard), L. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1706) takarai: 1. Fetid cassia, s. sh., Cassia tora; 2. West Indian bead tree

(c) 1998-2009 Seminar of Indian Studies, Institute of South and Central Asia, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Development of this database of Indian plant names was made possible by the generous funding of the Grant Agency of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.