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Glossary of medicinal plant names

वनौषधिशब्दादर्श · परिशिष्ट

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  1. Title page of the appendix वनौषधिशब्दादर्श, a glossary of medicinal plant names placed after the close of the Kalyāṇakārakam. The page carries only the title.

  2. This page has only the printed page number 640 and the running head; it holds no glossary entries.

  3. The first glossary page sets out four columns (Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada) and gives entries 1–16 of the अ section, from अंकोल (ढेरा) to अग्निमन्थ (अरणी). Among them are अंजन with…

  4. Entries 17–33 of the अ section, from अजाजी (black and white cumin) to अभया (हरीतकी). They include अजकर्ण (विजयसार), अजमोदा, अटरूष (अडूसा), अतसी (अलसी), अतिबला, अतिविषा (अतीस), अनिलघ्नी…

  5. Entries 34–57, which close the अ section, from अभ्रक (mica) to इक्षफल (लोध). They include अमरदारु (देवदार), अमृत (गिलोय, बचनाग), अम्लिका (इमली), अरिष्ट (छाछ, नीम, लहसन, रीठा), अर्क and…

  6. Entries 1–21 of the आ section, from आखुकर्णी (मूसाकर्णी) to आश्मन्तक; the numbering starts again at 1 for this letter. They include आज्य (घी, and the resin श्रीवास), आढकी (अरहर, and alum…

  7. The page closes the आ section with आसनतरु (जीवक, विजयसार), आस्फोत (आक, कचनार), आषपत्र (कमल) and a cross-reference आक्ष, gives the whole इ section (इंगुदी, इन्द्रदारु, इन्द्रपुष्पी,…

  8. Entries उ 2–10: उग्रगन्ध as हींग, उच्चाट with घुंघची, भुई आंवला and नागरमोथा, उत्कट as दालचीनी and तेजपात, उत्पल, उदुंबर as गूलर and, in the neuter, copper, उशीर, उषण as मिरच and पीपलामूल,…

  9. The क section opens with कक्कोल (शीतलचीनी, कंकोळ) and runs to कनक; the numbering starts again at 1. It includes कटुक and कटुत्रिक (त्रिकटु: सोंठ, मिरच, पीपल), कटुरोहिणी (कुटकी), कट्फल, कण…

  10. Entries 13–27 of the क section, from कन्या (घीकुंवार, बड़ी इलायची, वाराहीकन्द and other senses) to कर्कारु (कोहडा). They include कपि and कपिचूत (आंबाडा), कपित्थ (कैथ), कपोतक (kinds of…

  11. Entries 28–41 of the क section, from कर्कोटी (ककोडा) to काकादनी (घुंघुची). They include कर्कोल (see कक्कोल), कर्चूर (कचूर, सोना), कर्पूर (कपूर), कर्मरंग (कमरख), करंज, कलाय (मटर), कल्हार (a…

  12. Entries 42–56 of the क section, from काकोलिका (काकोली) to किणिही (चिरचिरा, आघाडा). Entry 43 quotes a Sanskrit verse naming the members of the काकोल्यादि group (काकोली, क्षीरकाकोली, जीवक,…

  13. Entries 57–70 of the क section, from किरात (चिरायता) to कुरंट (पीली कटसरैया). They include कुक्कुटी (सेमर), the measure कुची (eight handfuls), कुचन्दन (लाल चंदन), कुट and कुटज (कुडा),…

  14. Entries 71–82 of the क section, from कुलहला (गोरखमुंडी) to केतकी. They include कुलत्थ (कुलथी), कुवलय (नीलकमल), कुश, कुशा (चकोतरा), कुसुम्भ (whose flowers are said to dye cloth),…

  15. Entries 83–95 of the क section, from केसर (हींग, नागकेसर, gold, कसीस, बकुल, पुन्नाग and the stamens of flowers) to कांजीरक. They include the grain कोद्रालक, कोरंट, कोल (बेर, a weight of one…

  16. The last entries of the क section, 96–108, mostly words written with an anusvara: कर्णिका (अगेथु, मेढासिंगी, the lotus pericarp), कांता (प्रियंगु, बड़ी इलायची, रेणुका, नागरमोथा), कांबु…

  17. The whole ख section, from खदिर (खैर, कत्था) to खंड (bida salt, sugar candy, a piece), with खरमंजरी (चिरचिरा), खर्जूर (खजूर, silver, orpiment), खर्परी (an eye medicine, the skull bone) and…

  18. Entries 5–18 of the ग section, from गायत्रिका (खैर, दुर्गंध खैर) to गोशीर्ष (हरिचंदन). They include गिरिकर्णिका and गिरीन्द्रकर्णिका (विष्णुक्रान्ता, श्वेत गोकर्णी), गुग्गुल (whose gum is…

  19. Entries 19–29 of the ग section, from गोशृंग (बबूल) to गुंजा (घुंघुची, also a weight of one ratti). They include गोक्षुर (गोखरू), गौर (white mustard, करंज, सिरस, खदिर, हरताल, gold and the…

  20. The घ section has two entries: घना, glossed as मषवन (the lexicon's Hindi name for mashaparni; Marathi रानउडीद), शंकरजटा and रुद्रजटा, and घोटा (घोटिका), glossed as घोटिका वृक्ष, with the…

  21. Seventeen entries from चक्रमर्द (चकवड) to चोर (a kind of शटी, खुरासानी अजवायन). They include चणका (Marathi जवस, linseed), चन्दन, चन्द्र (कबीला, water, gold, camphor, silver, red ochre,…

  22. Two entries: छगलिका (छगला), glossed as विधारा (Marathi वरधारा), and छिन्नोद्भवा (printed छन्नोद्भव), glossed as गिलोय (Marathi गुळवेल).

  23. Eleven entries from जटा (जटामांसी, बालछड़, शतावर, a tree root) to जंघारूहा (झारसी). They include जम्बू (जामुन), जल (सुगंधवाला, नेत्रवाला, water, a cow's womb), जलज (lotus, conch, pearl,…

  24. Two entries: टंकण, glossed as सुहागा (borax; Marathi टांकणखार), and टुण्टुक, glossed as टैंटुक वृक्ष (Marathi दिंडा), a name the lexicon lists for shyonaka.

  25. Forty-one entries from तगर to त्वक् (दालचीनी, bark, the skin of the body). Among them are तमाल (bamboo bark, तमालपत्र, दालचीनी), तरली (a यवागू made of barley flour, liquor, कांजी), तरुणी…

  26. Twenty entries from दर्भ (कुश, कांस) to द्विरज (हलदी, दारुहलदी). They include दर्वी (दारुहलदी, a ladle, a snake's hood), दहन (चीता, भिलावा, अगर, गुगुळ), दाडिम (अनार, also cardamom), दारुक…

  27. Seven entries: धत्तूर (धतूरा), धमन (नरसल, देवनळ), धातकी (धाय के फूल), धान्य (धनिया, a kind of मोथा, paddy, rice, भूधात्री and a weight of four sesame seeds), धावनी (पिठवन, रिंगणी), धात्री…

  28. Thirty-five entries from नक्त (कलिहारी) to न्यग्रोध (बड़, with नीम and बकायन in the Marathi column). They include three names of करंज (नक्तमार, नक्तमाल, नक्ताह्व), नाग (tin, lead, नागकेशर,…

  29. Forty-eight entries from पटोल (परवल) to प्लक्ष (पाकड़, पीपल). Among them are पत्र (कचनार, तमालपत्र, तालीसपत्र, नागवेल), पथ्या (हरड़), पद्मक and पद्ममध्य (कमल केशर), पनस, पयोद (मोथा), परूषक…

  30. Four entries: फणी (मरुवक, Marathi श्वेत मरुआ), फल (fruit in general, with जायफल, the three myrobalans, मैनफल, कुड़ा, इन्द्रजव, सुपारी, खरबूज and the testicles among its senses), फलाश (the…

  31. Nineteen entries from बकुल (बैलसरी, Marathi बकुळ) to ब्राह्मी (सोमवल्ली, मत्स्याक्षी, भारंग and other plants). They include बदर and बदरी (बेर, cotton seed, a weight of two tolas, कौंछ), बला…

  32. Sixteen entries from भद्रक (a kind of नागरमोथा, देवदार, इन्द्रजव, the lotus) to भ्रमर, which refers to भृङ्ग. They include भल्लातक (भिलावा), भार्ङ्गी (भारंगी), भूकूष्माण्डी (विदारीकन्द),…

  33. The first thirty numbered entries of the म section (no entry is numbered 15), from मगधोद्भवा (पीपल) to माणकी (a weight of 64 tolas, मानकन्द); the section continues on PDF 748, beyond this…

  34. The last entries of the म section, 31–59 on PDF 748–749, from मातुलुंग (बिजौरा, citron) to मांसी (जटामांसी). They include मार्कव (भांगरा), माष (उडद, also a weight of 5 to 12 ratti according…

  35. The whole य section, eight entries on PDF 750: यव (जौ, इन्द्रजौ, जवाखार and a measure of six mustard seeds), यवक्षार and यावशूक (जवाखार, with the Bengali name सोरा), यवागू (a thin rice…

  36. The whole र section, entries 1–18 on PDF 750–751, from रक्तचन्दन (लाल चन्दन, with Persian-style names) to रंभा (केला). It includes रजनी and रजनीद्वय (the two turmerics), रसताल (a medicine…

  37. The whole ल section, entries 1–14 on PDF 751–753, from लकुच (बडहर) to लुंग (तुरंज, महाळुंग). It includes लता (फूलप्रियंगु, मालकांगुनी, लताकस्तूरी, माधवीलता, दूब and other creepers), लवण…

  38. The whole व section, entries 1–53 on PDF 753–756, from वकुला (कुटकी) to व्योष (सोंठ, मिरच, पीपल, that is त्रिकटु). It includes वचा, वज्र and वज्री (थूहर, the diamond, white kusha, mica and…

  39. The whole श section, entries 1–55 on PDF 756–760, from शक्रमर्द (a kind of tree) to श्वेताम्ली (अम्लिका). It includes शटी (कचूर), शतपुष्पा and शताह्वा (सौंफ, सोआ), शतमूली and शतावरी, शमी,…

  40. The whole ष section has two entries: षट्फल, glossed in both columns only as a kind of fruit, and षष्टिक, the sixty-day grain (साठी धान्य, Marathi साठे साळी).

  41. The whole स section on PDF 760–763, numbered 1–48 with no entry 37 printed, from सद्धातकीकुसुम (धाय flowers) to स्नुही (सेहुंड). It includes समंगा (मजीठ, लाजवंती, खरैटी), सर्ज and साल (the…

  42. The whole ह section, entries 1–15 on PDF 763–764, from हट (glossed अंतरंगग, Marathi शेवाळ) to हिंताल (a palm, ताड़). It includes हयमार (कनेर), हरिताल (हरताल, with दूर्वा in the Marathi…

  43. The last section of the glossary, entries 1–12 on PDF 764–765, from क्षणदा (हलदी) to क्षुरक (तालमखाना, गोखरू). It includes क्षवक (चिरचिरा, राई), क्षारवृक्ष (मोखा, चाकवत), क्षितिपवृक्ष…

  44. Directly after the last glossary entry (क्ष 12, क्षुरक) the book closes with the single line इति भद्रं भूयात् ('thus, may there be well-being'). Nothing follows it in the source file, so…

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