| Plant name | plakṣa | | Language | Sanskrit | | Latin name | Ficus microcarpa L. f. - please click to view full record | | Latin name (synonyms) | Ficus retusa L. | | Sanskrit name | plakṣa | | Prakrit name | palakkha, pilakkhu, pilaṃkhu, piliṃkhu, pilukkha, piluṃka | | Hindi name | kāmarūp | | Bengali name | plakṣa, pākuṛ | | Tamil name | kallicci, icci | | Malayalam name | itti, itiiyāl | | English name | Chinese banyan | | Search occurrence | plakṣa, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 714)
plakṣa, m. the waved-leaf fig tree, Ficus infectoria (a large and beautiful tree with small white fruit) AV. &c. &c.; the holy fig tree, Ficus religiosa, L.; Thespesia populneoides, L.; a side door or the space at the space of a door, L.; = dvīpa Pur.; N. of a man TBr.; (with prāsravaṇa) = -prasravaṇa TāṇḍBr. ŚrS.; (ā) f. N. of the river Sarasvatī MBh. Hariv.
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