Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 243) kaṭabhī, f. Cardiospermum Halicacabum Suśr.; N. of several other plants L. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 293) kumbha m. a jar, pitcher, waterpot, ewer, small water-jar [often ifc. (f. ā) e.g. chidra-k-, a perforated pitcher R.; āma-k-, a jar of unbaked clay Pañcat.; hema-k-, a golden ewer Ragh. ii, 36 Amar.; jala-k-, a water-pot Pañcat.] RV. AV. &c.; an urn in which the bones of a dead person are collected ĀśvGṛ. KātyŚr. ŚāṅkhŚr.; the sign of the zodiac Aquarius Jyot. VarBṛS. &c.; a measure of grain (equal to twenty Droṇas, a little more than three bushels and three gallons; commonly called a comb; some make it two Droṇas or sixty-four Seers) Mn. viii, 320 Hcat.; the frontal globe or prominence on the upper part of the forehead of an elephant (there are two of these prominences which swell in the rutting season) MBh. Bhartṛ. &c.; a particular part of a bed VarBṛS.; N. of a plant (and also of its fruit) BhP. x, 18, 14; the root of a plant used in medicine; a religious exercise, viz. closing the nostrils and mouth so as to suspend breathing L.; the paramour of a harlot, bully, flash or fancy man L.; N. of a Mantra (pronounced over a weapon) R. i; N. of a Dānava (a son of Prahlāda and brother of Nikumbha) MBh. i, 2527 Hariv.; of a Rākshasa (son of Kumbhakarṇa) R. BhP.; of the father of the nineteenth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī Jain.; of a monkey R. iv, 33, 14; one of the thirty-four Jātakas or former births of Śākya-muni L.; N. of wk. Sāh.; (ā) f. a harlot L.; the plant Tiaridium indicum L.; (fr. kumbh) covering Vop.; (ī) f. a small jar or pot, earthen cooking vessel VS. AV. TS. &c.; N. of a hell Kāraṇḍ.; of a plant Bālar.; a small tree (the seeds of which are used in medicine, commonly Kaṭphala) L.; Bignonia suaveolens L.; Pistia Stratiotes L.; another plant (commonly Romaśa) L.; the plant Croton polyandrum L.; the plant Myrica sapida L.; (am) n. the plant Ipomoea Turpethum L.; a fragrant resin (guggulu), or the plant which bears it L.; gold Gal.; [cf. Gk. &90932[293,1] $; Lat. cymba.] Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 251) āvimā: Carey’s myrtle bloom, l. tr. Careya arborea Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 2903) pēḻaimaram: Carey’s myrtle-bloom, l. tr., Careya arborea Dymock, Warden, Hooper: Pharmacographia Indica (vol. II, p. 19) Careya arborea, Myrtaceae Fig. - Wild Guava (Eng.) C. arborea is a large deciduous tree, the leaves of which turn red in the cold season. It is the Kumbhi of Sanskrit writers, and appear to have been so named on account of the hollow on the top of the fruit giving it somewhat the appearance of a water-pot. The bark of the tree and the calices of the flowers are well-known Indian remedies, and are valued on account of their astringent and mucilaginous properties, being administered internally in coughs and colds and applied externally as an embrocation. Rheede (Hort. Mal. iii., 36), states that wild pigs are very fond of the bark, and that it is used by hunters to attract them. An astringent gum exudes from the fruit and stem, and the bark is made into coarse cordage. (Bourdillon.) The Tamil name Puta-tanni-maram signifies "water-bark-tree," in allusion to the exudation trickling down the bark in dry weather.
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