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Plant name	kūṭaśālmalī
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. - please click to view full record
Latin name (synonyms)	Bombax pentandrum L.
Sanskrit name	kūṭaśālmalī, śvetaśālmalī
Hindi name	saphed simal
Tamil name	pañcu
Malayalam name	paññimaram
English name	White silk cotton tree, True kopok tree
Search occurrence	kūṭaśālmalī, śvetaśālmalī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 299) kūṭaśālmali, m. f. the plant Andersonia Rohitaka, L.; a fabulous cotton plant with sharp thorns (with which the wicked are tortured in the world of Yama), MBh. (also -lika, m.); R. (-lī, f.); Ragh. xii, 95; N. of a hell, PadmaP.

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