नामरूपज्ञानम् (Characterization of Medicinal Plants) /180

१५२
 
Nāmarūpajñānam
 
१५. शाकाङ्गम् (रा०) – शाकानामङ्गत्वेन संस्कारकरूपेण प्रयुज्यते

इति ।
 

१६. शिरोवृन्तम् (कै०) – शीर्षभागे वृन्तमस्य ।
 
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Marica (Piper nigrum Linn.) is a climbon
 
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Marica (Piper nigrum Linn.) is a climber
er
(vallīja, vellaja) of which fruit is the useful part.

Fruits are black when dried (kṛṣṇa ), round (vṛtta-

phala) with a minute cup on the top (sśirovṛnta ),
tikong land

rugged (rūkṣa), sharp (tīkṣṇa ) and pungent (ūṣaṇa,
kat
kaṭuka, kolaka). Marica (black pepper) is in great

demand by foreigners (yavanesta) and as such is
ṣṭa) and as such is
an important item for export and as such found in

ports (dharmapattana, kolaka'[^1] ). It is a potent drug

(viīra) for disorders caused by kapha (kaphavirodhi)

and destroys organisms (marica ). It is also one of

the spices (śākānṅga).
 
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[^1]. "The ancient capital of the Pandyas located at kolkai
Kolkai
(tirunelveli ) is said to have been on the Taāmraparṇī river.

In this period trade of black pepper was at its zenith. Black

pepper was loaded on ships in the port of Nakhon-Dhar-
marad situated on the e
marād situated on the Eastern Malay coast, and was un-

loaded in the sea-port of kKolkai and was despatched to

Rome by Indian merchants through the Arab intermediar-

ies. The remembrance of this trade has survived in two

names of black pepper namely Dharmapattana and
kollaka.
 

kollaka.
 
-Moti Chandra: Trade and Trade Routes

in Ancient India, introduction, p. XIII.