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Polygonatum cirrhifolium (Wall.) Royle details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Polygonatum cirrhifolium (Wall.) Royle
Family	Liliaceae
Identified with (Lat)	Convallaria cirrhifolia Wall.
Identified with (Skt)	medā
Identified with (Hin)	medā
Identified with (Tam)	mētā
Identified with (Mal)	mēda
Identified with (Eng)	Meda
Search occurrence	medā, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
See plant's image	Polygonatum cirrhifolium (Wall.) Royle in Google image search
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 832) meda, m. fat (= medas), R.; Kām.; a species of plant (= alambuṣā), L.; a partic. mixed caste (the son of a Vaideha and a Kārāvara or a Nishāda female accord. to some "any person who lives by degrading occupations"), Mn.; MBh. &c.; N. of a serpent-demon, MBh.; (ā) f. a root resembling ginger (said to be one of the 8 principal medicines), Suśr.; (ī), f. g. gaurādi.

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