aśmagandhā

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

☞ p. 114, col. 1.

áśma—gandhā (áśma-), f. N. of a plant, ŚBr. xiii; KātyŚr. (cf. aśva-gandhā.)

Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

☞ vol. 1, p. 515.

áśmagandhā (von a° + gandha) f. N. einer Pflanze ŚAT. BR. 13, 8, 1, 16. KĀTY. ŚR. 25, 7, 17.

— Vgl. aśvagandhā .

Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

☞ vol. 1, p. 137, col. 3.

áśmagandhā f. eine best. Pflanze.

Vācaspatyam

☞ p. 494, col. 1.

aśmagandhā aśmana iva gandho leśo'syāḥ . pṛśinaparṇṇīlakṣa-
ṇāyāmāsandhau latāyām . “viśākhaśāvāśmagandhāpṛśni-
parṇṇyadhyaṇḍāśca” kātyā0 20, 7, 17, “aśmagandhā ā-
sandhiḥ pṛśniparṇṇīlakṣaṇeti” karka0 . “na śaraṃ nāśmagandhāṃ
nādhyaṇḍāṃ na pṛśniparṇṇīṃ nāśvatthasyāntike kuryyāt”
śata0 brā0 .

The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

☞ vol. 1, p. 41.

Aśma-gandhā (‘rock-smell’) is a plant mentioned in the

Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa,¹ probably identical with the late aśva-

gandhā, ‘horse-smell’ (Physalis flexuosa). [Footnote] 1) xiii. 8, 1, 16, with Eggeling's note in the Sacred Books of the East, 44, 427.