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Vata (banyan)

बरगद (वट) · वट

Ficus benghalensis · Moraceae

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Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
वटन्यग्रोधबहुपादक्षीरीरक्तफल
Hindi
बरगदवटबड़बड़ का पेड़बड
English
Vatabanyanbanyan treevata
Romanized
vatabargadbadnyagrodha
Marathi
वड

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  • Banyan fruit, as one of the milky trees, is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

    Chapter 4 · p. 60 · v. 44Hindi commentaryTraditional description

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Named 11 times on 9 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.

Questions and answers

Which senses does the glossary give for क्षीर, and which entries after it gather milky plants?

Milk and the gum of the सरल tree in the Hindi column, and water, milk, बकाण निंब, the milk of a cow that has just calved, खीर and a kind of incense in the Marathi column. क्षीरद्रुम, क्षीरी, क्षीरिका and क्षीरिणी then list milky trees and plants.

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Content type
Herb
Categories
Medicinal plantBarkLatex
Source pages with records
1
Pages naming it
9
Chapters
Chapter 4
Extraction tasks
T03
Record id
ingredient_nyagrodha