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Hemidesmus indicus (L.) R.Br. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Hemidesmus indicus (L.) R.Br.
Family	Asclepiadaceae
Identified with (Lat)	Periploca indica L.
Identified with (Skt)	anantamūla, śārivā
Identified with (Hin)	anantamūl, māgrābū
Identified with (Tam)	cāripai, naṉṉāri
Identified with (Mal)	nannāṛi, naṛunīṇṭi, naṛuneṇṭi
Identified with (Eng)	Indial sarasaparilla, Country sarasaparilla
Search occurrence	anantamūla, śārivā, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 25) anantamūla, m. the medicinal plant Śārivā. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1066,12) śārivā. See sārivā. sārivā, f. N. of two creeping plants (Hemidesmus Indicus and Ichnocarpa Frutescens), Suśr.

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