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 Plant namepuṇḍraka
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameSaccharum officinarum L. - please click to view full record
 Latin name (synonyms)Saccharum chinense Roxb., Saccharum officinale Salisb.
 Sanskrit namepuṇḍraka, ikṣu
 Hindi namepuṇḍiyā, pauṇḍā, gannā
 Bengali nameẫkh, ikṣu
 Tamil namekarimpu, puṇṭaram
 Malayalam namekarimpu
 English nameSugarcane, Noble cane
 Search occurrencepuṇḍraka, ikṣu, ikṣu, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 632)
puṇḍraka, m. (pl.) the Puṇḍras (s.v.) Mn. x, 44(v.l. pauṇḍ-) MBh.; (sg.) a prince of the Puṇḍras MBh.; N. of sev. plants (= puNDra) L.; a frontal sectarian mark (see Urdhva-p-. tri-p-); a man who lives by breeding silk-worms Col.; N. of a poet (also puṇḍroka) Cat.


 
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