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Gymnema sylvestre (Retz.) Schult. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Gymnema sylvestre (Retz.) Schult.
Family	Asclepiadaceae
Identified with (Lat)	Periploca sylvestris Retz.
Identified with (Skt)	meṣaśṛṅgī, madhunāśinī
Identified with (Hin)	guḍmār, merāsiṃgī
Identified with (Tam)	cakkaraikkolli, ciṟukuṟiñjā
Identified with (Mal)	bakkarakkolli, madhunāśini
Identified with (Eng)	Periploca of the woods
Search occurrence	meṣaśṛṅgī, madhunāśinī, madhunāśini, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
See plant's image	Gymnema sylvestre (Retz.) Schult. in Google image search
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 833) meṣaśṛṅga, m. a species of tree, MBh.; Suśr.; a species of poisonous plant, L.; (ī), f. Odina Pinnata or Gymnema Sylvestre, L.

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