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Plant name	uḍumbara
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Ficus racemosa L. - please click to view full record
Latin name (synonyms)	Ficus glomerata Roxb.
Sanskrit name	uḍumbara, sadāphala
Prakrit name	uduṃbara
Hindi name	gulār, umār
Bengali name	ḍumur
Tamil name	atti
Malayalam name	atti
English name	Gular fig, Country fig, Cluster fig
Search occurrence	uḍumbara, sadāphala, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	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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