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BIBLIO (Ayurveda)

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 - NIGHANTU ADARSA VOL. I & II
Author - BAPALAL G. VAIDYA
Title - STUDIES ON MEDICINAL PLANTS IN DHANVANTARIYA NIGHANTU VOL.1
Author - VAIDYA D.K. KAMAT

BIBLIO (Distribution)

Title - Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol I

Distribution

INDIA: Throughout India; HIMACHAL PRADESH: Simla.

Title - Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol I

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

Title - Flora of Rajasthan Vol. 1

Distribution

Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur. Found along hedges and on fringes of forest among bushes and shrubs

Title - Flora of Rajasthan Vol. 1

Author - B.V.Shetty & V.Singh

Title - Flora of Maharashtra State (Dicotyledons) Volume 2

Distribution

Maharashtra: Infrequent on hedges. Bombay, Dhule, Pune.

Title - Flora of Maharashtra State (Dicotyledons) Volume 2

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

Title - Flora of Gujarat State Vol 1

Distribution

On hedges; not frequent.

Title - Flora of Gujarat State Vol 1

Author - G.L.Shah

Title - Flora of Madhya Pradesh Vol I

Distribution

Sagar, Raipur

Title - Flora of Madhya Pradesh Vol I

Author - D.M.Verma, N.P.Balakrishnan, R.D.Dixit

Title - Flora of the Indian Desert

Distribution

Trop. Africa, Pakistan (Sind), India (Gujarat, Upper Gangetic Plains, Rajasthan)

Title - Flora of the Indian Desert

Author - Bhandari M.M

Botanical Name -

Luffa echinata ROXB.

Full Botanical citation -

Luffa echinata Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3: 716. 1832; H.L. Chakravarty, Fascicles of Flora of India, Fasicle II, Cucurbitaceae, BSI, Howrah, 71. 1982

Family -

CUCURBITACEAE

System(s) of Indian Medicine -

Ayurveda, Siddha, Homeopathy, Folk, Sowa-Rigpa

Vernacular names -

Total 77 Vernacular names found in 7 languages.

Hindi (14) - bidali, bindaal, dutar toru, duttar-toru, ghagara-bela, ghagarabela, ghagerbel, ghusarana, jangli-tori, kakora, khaksi, kukurlata, sonaiya, vandala

Kannada (4) - daevadaali, daevadangaar, daevadangari, devadangar

Marathi (6) - daevadaagaree, daevadangaree, devadali, devadangari, kukadvel, kukdavel

Sanskrit (38) -

Sanskrit Comments

akhuvishaka, bandala, chaturangaka, dali, deodalika, deotada, devadali, devatadaka, devatadakah, devedali, garagari, ghora, ghosha, gudajarih, hini, jihnutaka, jimuta, jimutaka, jimutakah, kadamba, kantaphala, karkati, kataphala, kharasparsha, koshaphala, kukkuti, lomasapatrika, lomashapatrika, pita, saha, saramushika, tarkari, turangika, veni, vishaghni, vishaha, vratakosha, vrittakosha

Tamil (12) - kocaratacitta, kukaitali2, navalokakkalimpupokki, neyppirkku, nuraippirkku, panibira, peyppirkku, tevatali, tevatalicakkoti, tevatalicam, viraittailamcutankatti, vitiputpacam

Telugu (2) - paanibira, panibira

Tibetan (1) - dji mu ta ka