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 Latin nameDiplocyclos palmatus (L.) C.Jeffrey
 FamilyCucurbitaceae
 Identified with (Lat)Bryonopsis laciniosa (L.) Naudin
 Identified with (Skt)liṅginī
 Identified with (Hin)śivaliṅgī, īśvaraliṅgī
 Identified with (Tam)aiviralikkōvai, civaliṅkakkāy
 Identified with (Mal)neyyuṇṇi, śivaliṅgakkāya, neyyuṛuṇi, aiviralikkōva, śivavaḷḷi
 Search occurrenceliṅginī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 902)
liṅgin, mfn. having a mark or sign, wearing a distinguishing mark; (ifc.) having the marks or appearance of, characterized by, Mn.; MBh. &c.; bearing false marks or signs, a hypocrite, (ifc.) only having the appearance or acting the part of ib. (cf. dvija-l°); having a right to wear signs or badges, one whose external appearance corresponds, with his inner character, ib.; having a subtle body, BhP.; m. a Brāhman of a partic. order, religious student, ascetic, MBh.; Kāv. &c.; pl. "possessing or furnished with a Liṅga", N. of a Śaiva sect (see liṅga-vat), Col.; "sustaining the Liṅga or Pradhāna", N. of Parameśvara, LiṅgaP.; (in logic) = vyāpaka, that which possesses an invariable characteristic mark (as in the proposition "there is fire because there is smoke", fire is the liṅgin; cf. IW. 62); original source or germ, Kap.; Sch.; an elephant, L.; (inī) f. a female ascetic, Daśar.; a species of plant, L.


 
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