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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 204, col. 1.
    apehivātā Bahuvr. f. (-tā) The name of a plant (Pœderia

    fœtida), a decoction of which is given against the disease

    granthi q. v.; e. g. in Suśruta: apehivātādaśamūlasiddhaṃ vaidya-

    ścatuḥmnehamatho dvayaṃ vā (scil. vidadhyāt). E. apehi (imper. of

    i with apa) and vāta, scil. (probably) oṣadhi or latā;

    liter. ‘a plant by which wind is expelled’; see the expla-

    nation s. v. apehivāṇijā.

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

    p. 56, col. 2.
    apehi—vātā (scil. latā) f. ‘useful in expelling wind’, the plant Paederia Foetida, Suśr.