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 Plant nameparpaṭa
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameHedyotis corymbosa (L.) Lam. - please click to view full record
 Latin name (synonyms)Oldenlandia corymbosa L.
 Sanskrit nameparpaṭa, parpaṭaka
 Hindi namepītpapḍā, daman pāppaḍ
 Tamil namepaṟpaṭakam
 Malayalam namepaṛppaṭakappuḷḷu, paṛppaṭakam
 Search occurrenceparpaṭa, parpaṭaka, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 606)
parpaṭa m. a species of medicinal plant Suśr. (Hedyotis Burmanniana or Mollugo Pentaphylla L.); a kind of thin cake made of rice or pease-meal and baked in grease L.; (ī) f. a red-colouring Oldenlandia Bhpr.; a kind of fragrant earth L.; a thin crisp cake (prob. = m.) W.


 
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