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 Latin nameTephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers.
 FamilyFabaceae
 Identified with (Skt)śarapuṅkha, bāṇa, bāṇapuṅkha
 Identified with (Hin)sarphoṃkā
 Identified with (Tam)kāṭṭukkoḻuñci
 Identified with (Mal)koḻiññil, kāṭṭamari, koḻuva, koṭikkoḻiññil
 Identified with (Eng)Wild indigo, Purple tephrosia
 Search occurrenceśarapuṅkha, bāṇa, bāṇapuṅkha, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageTephrosia purpurea (L.) Pers. in Google image search
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 727)
bāṇa or vāṇa (RV.), bāṇa (AV.; later more usually vāṇa, q.v.), m. a reed-shaft, shaft made of a reed, an arrow, RV. &c. &c.; N. of the number five (from the 5 arrows of Kāma-deva; cf. pañca-b°), Sūryas.; Sāh.; the versed sine of an arc, Gaṇit.; a mark for arrows, aim, BhP.; a partic. part of an arrow, L.; Saccharum Sara or a similar species of reed, Bhpr.; the udder of a cow (vāṇa RV. iv, 24, 9), L.; music (for vāṇa), AV. x, 2, 17 = kevala,; N. of an Asura (a, son of Bali, an enemy of Vishṇu and favourite of Śiva), MBh.; Pur.; of one of Skanda’s attendants, MBh.; of a king, Hariv.; (also -bhaṭṭa) of a poet (the author of the Kādambarī, of the Harsha-carita, and perhaps of the Ratnāvalī), Cat.; of a man of low origin, Rājat.; m. (Śiś) or (ā), f. (L.) a blue-flowering Barleria; (ā), f. the hind part or feathered end of an arrow, L.; n. the flower of Barleria, Kir.; Śiś.; the body, PraśnUp.

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 727)
bāṇapuṅkhā, f. the feathered end of an arrow, MW.; N. of a plant resembling the Indigo plant, L.

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1056)
śarapuṅkha, m. the shaft or feathered part of an arrow (see puṅkha), Suśr.; Vāgbh.; (ā), f. id., W.; Galega Purpurea, Bhpr.


 
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