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BIBLIO (Ayurveda)

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 - THE AYURVEDIC FORMULARY OF INDIA PART 1. FIRST EDITION
Author - Ministry of Health & family Welfare

BIBLIO (Distribution)

Title - FLORA OF INDIA VOL 1

Distribution

Global: Africa, Asia minor and Europe._x000D_ India: Kashmir.

Title - FLORA OF INDIA VOL 1

Author - ED. B.D. SHARMA & M.SANJAPPA , N.P. BALAKRISHNAN

Botanical Name -

Nymphaea alba L.

Full Botanical citation -

Nymphaea alba L., Sp. Pl. 510. 1753; R. Ansari et al., in Waterlilies in India, Tax.. Culti. Genus Nymphaea L. (Nymphaeaceae), Indian Asso. for Angio.Tax., 65. 2009.

Family -

NYMPHAEACEAE

System(s) of Indian Medicine -

Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Sowa-Rigpa

Vernacular names -

Total 16 Vernacular names found in 6 languages.

English (2) - water lilies, white water lily

Sanskrit (2) -

Sanskrit Comments

kumuda, utpalam

Tamil (3) - neitharkizhangu, neytal, neytarkilanku

Telugu (1) - nn

Tibetan (3) - ko mu da, ko mu ta (d), u tpa la dkar po

Urdu (5) - gul nilofar, gul-i-nilofar, gule nilofar, nilofar, tukhm nilofar