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many kinds: trees, shrubby plants?, shrubs ?, big plants 3, creeping plants', grass ; (95)
Palms, plants of knotty stems or stalks ?, mushrooms , water-plants, annual plants, and herbs 10. These are called plants possessing severally their own body. (96)
Those plants of which many have one body in common are of many kinds 11: Åluya 12, Malaya 13, ginger; (97)
Harili, Sirili, Sassirill, Gâval, Kêyakandalfat, onion, garlic, plantain-tree, Kuduvvaya 16 ; (98)
i Gukkha; it is explained to denote such plants from the single root or bulb of which come forth many stalks, e.g. Vrintáka, Solanum Melongena.
? Gulma, similar to the preceding class, but bringing forth twigs or stems, instead of stalks, e.g. Navamâlika, Jasminum Sambac, Kanavîra, &c. 3 Latâ, as Lotus, Pandanus, &c.
Valli, as gourds, Piper Betel, &c.
Trina, grass. But of the two examples given in the commentary, gunguka is not in our dictionaries, and Arguna denotes usually a tree, Terminalia Arjuna.
6 Vala ya ; so called from their foliation. ? Parvaga, as sugar-cane.
8 Kuhana, plants which cause the earth to burst, as sarpakkhatra, mushroom (toad-stool).
. Ôshadhi, such plants as die after having brought forth seed, as rice, &c.
10 Haritakâya, as tandulêya, &c.
11 The plants in the following list are, according to the commentary, mostly bulbs, 'well known in the countries where they grow.' Many of them are not in our dictionaries. I give the Prakrit form of their names, and note the Sanskrit equivalent when it can be identified.
12 Aluka, Amorphophallus Campanulatus. 13 Malaka, radish.
14 A various reading has for the last two words (which might be differently divided), âpaikkêikandalî. The Kandalî, the plantain-tree, occurs in the next line again.
15 A various reading is Kuda mbaya.
