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पर्पटक (parpaTaka)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
पर्पटक
m.
a species of medicinal plant (= °पट),
Suśr.
Car.
Bhpr.
Monier Williams 1872
English
पर्पटक, अस्, m. a species of medicinal plant
with bitter leaves, (probably) Oldenlandia Biflora.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
-parpaṭaka, m. (= Skt. °ṭa, a kind of cake
AMg. pappaḍa, a thin paper-like dried cake, Ratnach.
in Pali only recorded in bhūmi-pappaṭaka), noted only in bhū-, bhūmi-, pṛthivī-p°, qq.v., all of which (certainly the first two) seem clearly to mean a kind of edible mushroom (like Pali bhūmi-p°, above)
lit. earth-(pan)cake or the like.