PANDANUS Project  
Diospyros peregrina (Gaertn.) Gürke in Pandanus database of Indian plant names
 •  Pandanus Homepage  •  Database of Plants  •  Publications  •  Sanskrit E-texts  •  Seminar of Indian Studies  •
 

  Diospyros peregrina (Gaertn.) Gürke details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

Back to the list of plant names 

 
 Latin nameDiospyros peregrina (Gaertn.) Gürke
 FamilyEbenaceae
 Identified with (Lat)Diospyros embryopteris Pers., Embryopteris peregrina Gaertn., Diospyros malabarica (Desr.) Kostel
 Identified with (Skt)tinduka, tindukī
 Identified with (Pkt)tiṃduya
 Identified with (Hin)gābh, tedu
 Identified with (Ben)deśī gāb
 Identified with (Tam)paṉiccai, paṉicikā
 Identified with (Mal)panacci, panañci, panacca
 Identified with (Eng)Indian persimon, Gaub persimmon, Wild Mangosteen
 Botanical infoAn evergreen tree up to 15m high, bell-shaped flowers, round yellow fruits, grows all over India especially along water streams, also cultivated.
 Search occurrencetinduka, tindukī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageDiospyros peregrina (Gaertn.) Gürke in Google image search
 Encyclopedias &
 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 446)
m. Diospyros embryopteris, (n.) its fruit (yielding a kind of resin used as pitch for caulking vessels &c.) MBh. R. Suśr. VarBṛS. &c.; m. = -du q.v.; n. a kind of weight (= karṣa; = suvarṇa Car. vii, 12) ŚārṅgS. i, 21 Ashṭāṅg.; (ī) f. = -ki Suśr. iv, 2, 42 and 21, 8 VarBṛS.lxxix Kāś. 447,1

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 447)
f. Diospyros embryopteris, L.

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 2573)
paṉiccai: 1. A mode of dressing the hair of women; 2. Depression on the nape of the neck; 3. Swollen ulcer on the back of the head

Dymock, Warden, Hooper: Pharmacographia Indica (vol. II., pp. 366-367)
Diospyros Embryopteris, Ebenaceae
Fig.- Indian Persimmon (Eng.)
D. Embryopteris is the Tinduka of Sanskrit writers; its bark is described in the Nighantas as a good application to boils and tumours, and the juice of the fresh bark as useful in bilious fever. The fruit when unripe is said to be cold. light, and astringent, and when ripe beneficial in blood diseases, gonorrhoea and leprosy. A kind of Tinduka called Visha-tinduka, "poisonous tinduka," is said to have similar properties; as well as a plant called Kanki or Kinkini. Mir Muhammad Husain, speaking of Ebony, mentions Gāb as a kind of Indian ebony, but is silent as to its medicinal uses. Rheede (Hort. Mal iii., p.46), speaking of D. Embryopteris, says- "Arborix cortex in pulverem redactus ac cum oryzae infuso, et expresso e matura nuce Indica lacteo succo mixtus, atque febricitantibus exhibitus aestum potenter extinquit; ex seminibus oleum exprimitur." The circumstance that the unripe fruit abounds in an astringent viscid juice, which is used by the natives of India for daubing the bottoms of boats, was communicated by Sir William Jones to Roxburgh in 1791. The introduction of the fruit into European medical practice in India is due to O'Shaugnessy. In 1868 it was made official in the Pharmacopoeia of Indica. The fruit is eaten by the poorer classes. The seeds are preserved by the country people and given as an astringent in diarrhoea. The testa is the astringent part, the albumen being almost tasteless. Although the ripe fruit is very sweet, insects will not touch it.


 
(c) 1998-2009 Seminar of Indian Studies, Institute of South and Central Asia, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Development of this database of Indian plant names was made possible by the generous funding of the Grant Agency of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.