aśmantakaḥ

aśmantakaḥ, aśmantakam 1 A fire-place. -2 The shade for a lamp (dīpādhāra). -3 A kind of grass. -kaḥ N. of several trees:- (a) amloṭaka; its leaf; tīrāśmantakaśimbicumbitamukhāḥ Māl.9.7 (Mar. āpaṭā); (b) N. of a tree kovidārakāḥ (Mar. koraḻa); (c) N. of a plant from the fibres of which a Brāhmaṇa's girdle may be made; muñjālābhe tu kartavyā kuśāśmantakabalvajaiḥ | Ms.2.43. (Monier Williams gives the word wrongly as aśmāntaka.)

aśmantakaḥ , puṃ, aśmanta + kan .) tṛṇaviśeṣaḥ . amla-
kucāi itibhāṣā . tatparyyāyaḥ . amloṭakaḥ 2 .
iti ratnamālā .. vṛkṣaviśeṣaḥ . āvuṭā iti
paścimadeśe khyātaḥ . tatparyyāyaḥ . indukaḥ 2 kurālī
3 amlapatraḥ 4 ślakṣmatvak 5 nīlapatraḥ 6 yamalapa-
trakaḥ 7 . asya guṇāḥ . madhuratvaṃ . kaṣāyatvaṃ . suśī-
talatvaṃ . pittapramehavidāhatṛṣṇāviṣamajvaraviṣā-
rtticcharddibhūtanāśitvañca .. iti rājanirghaṇṭaḥ ..