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BIBLIO (Ayurveda)

Title - A DICTIONARY OF THE ECONOMIC PRODUCTS OF INDIA VOL.I - 4
Author - GEORGE WATT
Title - ASTANGA HRIDAYA KOSHA
Author - ANONYMOUS
Title - DRAVYAGUNA VIGNANA VOL.2,5,5N
Author - PROF. P.V. SHARMA
Title - GLOSSARY OF VEGETABLE DRUGS IN BRHTTRAYI
Author - THAKUR BALWANT SINGH & DR. K.C.CHUNEKAR
Title - INDIAN MATERIA MEDICA, FIRST EDITION 1908, 3RD EDITION 1954
Author - LATE DR.K.M.NADKARNI & A.K.NADKARNI
Title - INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS Vol 1 -4
Author - K.R. KIRTIKAR, B.D. BASU & AN I.C.S.
Title - LA-HARITA SAMHITA
Author - ALIX RAISON
Title - STUDIES ON MEDICINAL PLANTS IN DHANVANTARIYA NIGHANTU VOL.1
Author - VAIDYA D.K. KAMAT
Title - THE AYURVEDIC FORMULARY OF INDIA PART 1. FIRST EDITION
Author - Ministry of Health & family Welfare

BIBLIO (Distribution)

Title - FOREST FLORA OF MEGHALAYA VOL 1

Distribution

Commonly cultivated in Meghalaya

Title - FOREST FLORA OF MEGHALAYA VOL 1

Author - HARIDASAN K & RAO R R

Title - Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol I

Distribution

INDIA: Throughout the plains of North India; HIMACHAL PRADESH: Kulu, Mandi.

Title - Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol I

Author - H.J.chowdhery & B.M.Wadhwa

Title - Flora of Rajasthan Vol. 1

Distribution

Jhalawar. Rare found as an escape from cultivation near habitations

Title - Flora of Rajasthan Vol. 1

Author - B.V.Shetty & V.Singh

Title - Flora of Maharashtra State (Dicotyledons) Volume 2

Distribution

Maharashtra: Frequent. Thane.

Title - Flora of Maharashtra State (Dicotyledons) Volume 2

Author - N.P.Singh, P.Lakshminarasimhan, S.Karthikeyan & P.V. Prasanna

Botanical Name -

Trichosanthes dioica ROXB.

Full Botanical citation -

Trichosanthes dioica Roxb. [Wall. Num. List No. 6692A, B,C. nomen] Fl. Ind. 3: 701. 1832; H.L. Chakravarty, Fascicles of Flora of India, Fasicle II, Cucurbitaceae, BSI, Howrah, 114. 1982

Family -

CUCURBITACEAE

System(s) of Indian Medicine -

Ayurveda, Siddha, Homeopathy, Folk, Sowa-Rigpa

Vernacular names -

Total 47 Vernacular names found in 8 languages.

Hindi (4) - palval, palwal, parvar, parwal

Kannada (1) - kahi-padavala

Malayalam (2) - kattu-potolam, patolam

Marathi (3) - kadu-padvala, palwal, parwar

Sanskrit (19) -

Sanskrit Comments

bijagarbha, karkasa, karkasacchada, kulaka, meki, pallava, parvagi, parvara, patola, patolah, patolam, patoli, piluparnika, putulika, rajanama, rajapatola, rajiphala, supathya, vrittabija

Tamil (12) - amirtapalai 2, kacamarttakam, karkkacatalam, kocatakam, kombu-pudalai, kombuppudalai, kompupputal, kuttakantam, musu musukai, peypputalai, peyu-padal, putalai

Telugu (5) - adavi-patola, kambupotala, kommu potla, kommu-potla, kommupotla

Tibetan (1) - pa-to-la