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 Plant namemaṇḍūkī
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameCentella asiatica (L.) Urb. - please click to view full record
 Latin name (synonyms)Hydrocotyle asiatica L.
 Sanskrit namemaṇḍūkaparṇī, maṇḍūkī
 Hindi namebrahmamaṇḍūkī, beṃgsāg
 Tamil namevallārai
 Malayalam namemuttiḷ, kuṭaṅṅal, kuṭakan
 English nameIndian pennywort
 Search occurrencemaṇḍūkaparṇī, maṇḍūkī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 776)
maṇḍūka, m. (ifc. f. ā) a frog, RV. &c. &c.; N. of a partic. breed of horses MBh.; Calosanthes Indica, L.; a machine like a frog, L.; the sole of a horse’s hoof., L.; N. of a Rishi, Pāṇ. 4-1, 119; of a Nāga, L.; (ī) f. a female frog, KV.; N. of various plants (Hydrocotyle Asiatica, Clerodendrum Siphonantus, Ruta Graveolens &c.), L.; a wauton woman, L.; the sole of a horse’s hoof, L.; n. a kind of coitus, L.


 
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