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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 203, col. 1.
    apetarākṣasī Bahuvr. f. (-sī) The name of a plant, Tulasi

    or holy basil (Ocymum sanctum); according to some, a

    black variety of this plant. Comp. also apretarākṣasī. E.

    apeta and rākṣasī (not rākṣasa).

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

    p. 56, col. 2.
    apeta—rākṣasī f. the plant Ocimum Sanctum (also apreta-r°).

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 1, p. 312.
    apetarākṣasī (von apeta + rākṣasa) f. N. einer Pflanze, Ocimum sanctum, ŚKDR. u. apretarākṣasī .

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    vol. 1, p. 78, col. 1.
    *apetarākṣasī f. Ocimum sanctum.

    Śabdakalpadruma

    vol. 1, p. 69.
    apetarākṣasī , strī, (apetaḥ rākṣasa iva pātakaṃ
    yasyāḥ sā, gaurāditvāt ṅīṣ .) tulasīvṛkṣaḥ .
    iti rājanirghaṇṭaḥ ..