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 Plant nameśāka
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameTectona grandis L.f. - please click to view full record
 Sanskrit nameśāka, bhūmisaha
 Hindi namesāgaun, sāgvān
 Tamil nametēkku, tēkku(maram)
 Malayalam nametēkku
 English nameTeak
 Search occurrenceśāka, bhūmisaha, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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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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