PANDANUS Project  
tinduka in Pandanus database of Indian plant names
 •  Pandanus Homepage  •  Database of Plants  •  Publications  •  Sanskrit E-texts  •  Seminar of Indian Studies  •
 

  tinduka details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

Back to the list of plant names 

 
 Plant nametinduka
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameDiospyros peregrina (Gaertn.) Gürke - please click to view full record
 Latin name (synonyms)Diospyros embryopteris Pers., Embryopteris peregrina Gaertn., Diospyros malabarica (Desr.) Kostel
 Sanskrit nametinduka, tindukī
 Prakrit nametiṃduya
 Hindi namegābh, tedu
 Bengali namedeśī gāb
 Tamil namepaṉiccai, paṉicikā
 Malayalam namepanacci, panañci, panacca
 English nameIndian persimon, Gaub persimmon, Wild Mangosteen
 Search occurrencetinduka, tindukī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 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


 
(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.