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 Latin nameTectona grandis L.f.
 FamilyLamiaceae
 Identified with (Skt)śāka, bhūmisaha
 Identified with (Hin)sāgaun, sāgvān
 Identified with (Tam)tēkku, tēkku(maram)
 Identified with (Mal)tēkku
 Identified with (Eng)Teak
 Search occurrenceśāka, bhūmisaha, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageTectona grandis L.f. in Google image search
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 763)
bhūmīsaha, m. a species of tree, Bhpr.

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1061)
śāka, 1 m. (fr. śak) power, might, help, aid, RV.; (śāka) m. helpful, a helper, friend, ib.

śāka, 2 n. (or m. g. ardharcādi; of doubtful derivation, and scarcely to be connected with 1. śāka) a potherb, vegetable, greens, GṛŚrS.; Mn.; MBh. &c.; any vegetable food, Gaut.; m. the Teak tree, Tectona Grandis, GṛŚrS.; MBh. &c.; Acacia Sirissa, L.; N. of a Dvīpa (the sixth of the seven Dvīpas, called after the Teak tree growing there, surrounded by the sea of milk or white sea, and inhabited by the Rita-vratas, Satya-vratas, Dāna-vratas, and Anu-vratas), MBh.; Pur.; (ā), f. Terminalia Chebula, L.; m. or n. (?) N. of a place, Col.

śāka, 3 m. N. of a man g. kuñjādi.

śāka, 4 mfn. (fr. śaka) relating to the Śakas or Indoscythians; m. n. (scil. saṃvatsara, abda &c.) the Śaka era (also śāka-kāla; see śakak°), VarBṛS.; Sch.; (also) a general, N. for any era; (pl.) N. of a people (w.r. for śaka), Buddh.


 
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