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Planetary
herbs for Bhasman
Bhasma
= sacred ash of incinerated herbs
In addition to remedial gems,
each planet has an assigned herb which is ritually burnt with
mantra to prepare asacred ash(bhasma).
Calotropis
GiganteaAsclepias
gigantea - Arka-bhasman
Artocarpus Integrifolia / Artocarpus
heterophyllus - Panasa-bhasman
Paspalum
scrobiculatum - Khadira-bhasman
("couch" in "couch grass" is
from the old English cwiche, it means to "quicken" -
true to Kuja it grows fast and is highly invasive)
Achyranthes
Aspera- Apamarga-bhasman
Ficus
Religiosa - Pippala-bhasman
Ficus Glomerata /Ficus
racemosa -
Audumbara-bhasman
Prosopis
cineraria - Shami-bhasma [Zani-bhasman]
"The tree(prosopis
cineraria) is known as jandinHindi
and Punjabi,jandiin Haryanvi, khejriin Rajasthani, and sami Or samri in Gujarati. Referred
to as the golden tree of Indian deserts, it plays a vital role in
preserving the ecosystem of arid and semi-arid areas. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020928/windows/main2.htm
Ghaf (Arabic), Jand
(Punjab), Jandi (Pakistan), Shum(India)
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Prosopis_cineraria.html
Cynodon
Dactylon - Durva-bhasman
ENGLISH : Bermuda grass, Scutch grass, Star
grass.
NEPALESE :
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Unicode
fonts are needed]
Poa
cynosuroides - Kusha-bhasman - Kutha-bhasman
English: Big cordgrass or Salt
reed-grass, and in Australia, as Halfa grass
Intl: Sacrificial Grass , Kusha
Grass
Sanskrit: kutapa, kutha, kuza, pavitraka,
vahni
"It grows beside
brackish (salty) water such as found at the mouths of rivers and is a
kind of tussock grass; that is, it grows in clumps. When it is
dry, kusa straw is called durva or dharbai. However,
some say these are two different species: Kusha is Poa cynosuroides
and Durva, Agrostis linearis." -
http://www.khandro.net/nature_plants_kusha.htm
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