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Ficus racemosa L. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Ficus racemosa L.
Family	Moraceae
Identified with (Lat)	Ficus glomerata Roxb.
Identified with (Skt)	uḍumbara, sadāphala
Identified with (Pkt)	uduṃbara
Identified with (Hin)	gulār, umār
Identified with (Ben)	ḍumur
Identified with (Tam)	atti
Identified with (Mal)	atti
Identified with (Eng)	Gular fig, Country fig, Cluster fig
Botanical info	A deciduous tree with few aerial roots, bark with soft surface, pleasantly fragrant orange to crimson fruits, grows all over India.
Search occurrence	uḍumbara, sadāphala, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1139) sadāphala, mf(ā)n. always bearing fruit Pañcat.; m. a partic. kind of fruit tree (accord. to L. "Ficus Glomerata; Aegle Marmelos; the cocoa-nut tree; Artocarpus Integrifolia") Siṅhās.; (ā or ī) f. Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis L.; a kind of Solanum L. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 175) m. (in Ved. written with d, in Class. generally with ḍ), the tree Ficus glomerata AV. TS. AitBr. Br. MBh. R. Suśr. &c.; a species of leprosy with coppery spots Car.; the threshold of a house VarBṛS.; a eunuch, L.; a kind of worm supposed to be generated in the blood and to produce leprosy, L.; membrum virile, L.; (ās) m. pl.N. of a people VarBṛS.; (ī) f. Ficus oppositifolia Suśr.; (am) n. a forest of Uḍumbara trees TāṇḍyaBr.; the fruit of the tree Ficus glomerata ŚBr.; copper VarBṛS.; a karsha (a measure of two tolas) ŚārgS.

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