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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 177, col. 2.
    apaviṣa I. Bahuvr. 1. m. f. n. (-ṣaḥ-ṣā-ṣam) Free from poison;

    the same as nirviṣa.

    2. f. (-ṣā) The name of a plant; also nirviṣā (Wilson:

    Kyllingia monocephala; Ainslie: Curcuma Zedoaria Roxb.

    or Amomum Zedoria Lin.).

    II. Tatpur. n. (-ṣam) ‘A weak poison; there are seven

    varieties of these poisons’ (Wise's Hindu System of Medicine

    p. 407). E. apa and viṣa.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    p. 52, col. 3.
    apaviṣa apa-viṣa, as, ā, am, free from

    poison; (ā), f. a species of grass, Kyllingia Mono-

    cephala.

    Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 112, col. 1.
    apaviṣa a. Free from poison.

    ṣā A sort of grass with aromatic roots; Kyllingia Monocephala.

    Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    vol. 1, p. 148.
    apaviṣa a. Free from poison. -ṣā A sort of grass with aromatic roots; Kyllingia Monocephala.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 1, p. 294.
    apaviṣa (1. apa + viṣa)

    1) adj. frei von Gift.

    — 2) f. °ṣā ein Riedgras mit aromatischer Wurzel, Kyllingia monocephala Lin., RĀJAN. im ŚKDR.