Rashi - Gochara - Bhava - Graha - Ratna - Nakshatra - Amsha - Varga
Planetary Herbs for Bhasman
Bhasma
= sacred ash of incinerated herbs
In addition to ratna, the traditional scared jewels for Jyotishavidya, each graha has an assigned herb which is ritually burned with mantra to prepare a sacred ceremonial ash * bhasma .
Ruta Graveolens
www.scu.edu.au/schools/hahs/gfx/plants/R_graveolens.jpg
Surya-bhasma: flowers of the silk tree Albizia julibrissin
Calotropis Gigantea *Asclepias gigantea * Arka-bhasman
English
French-Arabic
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Alarka,
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Arbre-a-Soie, Albizia Julibrissin
Other Indic
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Aka, Arka, Akado, Akanda, Akda, Akra, Arkamu,
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Khok, Khark,
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Badabadam, Byclospa,
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Ekka * Ekke (Kannada) Ekkemal * Erikka * Erikku * Erukku (Tamil) Yercum * yerkum
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Jilledu (Telegu)
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Surya pattra
Erythrina variegata
Sanskrit
Other Indic
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Madar, Mandara, Mandaramu, Mudar, Modar
Tibetan
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Mandaraba
English
- Coral Tree, Tiger's Claw, Sunshine Tree
Sunshine Tree * Sacred to Surya, native to south Asia
Artocarpus Integrifolia * Artocarpus heterophyllus
- Panasa-bhasman
ENGLISh
- Jackfruit, Jackfruit tree.
HINDI
- Cakki, Kathal, Kanthal
Mars
Paspalum scrobiculatum -
Khadira-bhasman
ENGLISh
- Scorbic (Aust.),
- Creeping paspalum, Indian paspalum,
- Kodo millet
- Water couch
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" couch" in "couch grass " is from the old English 'cwiche', = "to quicken" . True to Kuja it grows fast and is highly invasive.
HINDI
- Kodo, Kodra
- Khadira
Achyranthes Aspera - Apamarga-bhasman
ENGLISh
- Devil's horsewhip
- Prickly chaff-flower
HINDI
- Latkana
Ficus Religiosa -
Pippala-bhasman
NEPALI
- peepul
HINDI
- pippala , pipal, pipali, pipli
THAI
- Po
ENGLISh
- Sacred fig, Sacred fig tree
- Bo tree, Bodhi tree
AUM shum shukraya namah
Ficus Glomerata
* Ficus racemosa
- Audumbara-bhasman
ENGLISH
- Cluster tree, Country fig, Gular fig, Redwood fig, Cluster fig
HINDI
- Doomar, Domoor, Gular, Udumbara, Umar, Umbar
Sustainer of Dry Places
Prosopis cineraria -
Shami-bhasma [Zani-bhasman]
" The tree prosopis cineraria is known as jand in Hindi and Punjabi, jandiin Haryanvi, khejriin Rajasthani, and sami or samriin 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. https://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020928/windows/main2.htm
Arabic
- ghaf
Rajasthani
- khejri
Punjabi, Hindi
- jand, jandi
Gujarati
- sami, samri,
- shum
https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Prosopis_cineraria.html
https://www.botgard.ucla.edu
Cynodon Dactylon - Durva-bhasman
ENGLISH
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Bermuda grass, Scutch grass, Star grass.
NEPALI
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Dubo, 
Panjaa, 
Seto duvo, 
Situu.
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Poa cynosuroides * Kusha-bhasman * Kutha-bhasman
English
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Big cordgrass or Salt reed-grass, and in Australia, as Halfa grass
Intl
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Sacrificial Grass, Kusha Grass
Sanskrit
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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."
https://www.khandro.net/nature_plants_kusha.htm
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