Plant
A curated, evidence-aware list from the frozen product graph.
- plants (oṣadhi)plantHerbs and plants, addressed collectively and chiefly as healers.216linked passages
- tree (vanaspati)plantTrees and the wood taken from them, including the sacrificial post and the forest as a place.144linked passages
- darbha grass (darbha)plantDarbha grass, addressed in its own hymns as an amulet that splits the heart of a rival; not the strewn barhis of the sacrifice.40linked passages
- barley (yava)plantBarley, the one cereal the corpus names constantly: ploughed, reaped, eaten, and offered, and the crop against which hunger is measured.38linked passages
- grain (dhānya)plantGrain in general, and specifically the parched or roasted grain (dhānā) set out for Indra's horses and scattered for the dead.26linked passages
- kushtha (kuṣṭha)plantKushtha, a herb said to come down from the Himalaya, used against fever.19linked passages
- jangida (jaṅgiḍa)plantJangida, worn as an amulet against viskandha and other seizing afflictions.16linked passages
- ashvattha (aśvattha)plantThe aśvatthá, the holy fig: born out of the khadira and told to crush the speaker's foes in AVS 3.6 and 8.8, named as the seat of the gods in the third heaven where they won the kuṣṭha, and the home of the herbs at RV 10.97.5.14linked passages
- apamarga (apāmārga)plantApamarga, "the wiper-off", the plant of the counter-witchcraft hymns.8linked passages
- arundhati (arundhatī)plantArundhati, a climbing herb invoked for the healing of fractures and wounds.7linked passages
- khadira (khadira)plantThe khadirá, the hard-wooded acacia: the tree the aśvattha is born from, the wood of an amulet in AVS 10.6, one of the six trees the healing plant of AVS 5.5 arises from, and the timber a chariot axle is asked to be firm as at RV 3.53.19.6linked passages
- sesame (tila)plantSesame, eaten, pressed for oil, and scattered mixed with grain for the dead.5linked passages
- gulgulu (gulgulu)plantGulgulu, the aromatic resin (later guggulu) named among the substances whose smell drives sickness off.4linked passages
- prshniparni (pṛśniparṇī)plantThe spotted-leaf, "weal for us, woe for Nirṛti": a grinder-up of the kaṇvas and a hewer of the heads of the ill-named ones, invoked against the embryo-eating demon.4linked passages
- laksha (lākṣā)plantThe healing plant of AVS 5.5, which that hymn names twice over -- silācī́ in verses 1 and 8, lā́kṣā in verse 7 -- and which it addresses alongside arundhatī for the closing of wounds. Two names for one addressee, so one entity, on the hymn's own authority rather than on a botanical identification.3linked passages
- rice (vrīhi)plantRice, as the standing grain and as the husked grain of the cooked offering; almost entirely an Atharvavedic and Yajurvedic word.3linked passages
- ajashringi (ajaśṛṅgī)plantThe goat-horned plant, also called arāṭakī́, whose smell is said to expel the Apsarases and Gandharvas in AVS 4.37.2linked passages
- honey-plant (madugha)plantThe madúgha or honey-plant, named in the Atharvaveda's two love charms only: once as the thing the speaker claims to be sweeter than, once among the substances that make up a means of subjection.2linked passages
- beans (māṣa)plantThe bean, named in the short lists of cultivated foods rather than described.2linked passages
- pippali (pippalī)plantThe pippalī berry, called in its own hymn a remedy for what is bruised and for what is pierced, and made by the gods sufficient for life. Kept apart from pippalá, the sweet berry of the two eagles on the cosmic tree.2linked passages
- hemp (bhaṅga)plantHemp, named once, in the list of the five kingdoms of plants at AVS 11.6.15 -- darbhá, hemp, barley and sáha -- asked together to free the speaker from distress. One occurrence, and the reason the bare stem is not an alias is that bhaṅg- is otherwise the root "to break".1linked passages
- vishanaka (viṣāṇakā)plant"Horny" by name, called Rudra's urine and the navel of the immortal, and declared in its single occurrence to be an effacer of the wind-caused ailment.1linked passages
How this list was scoped1
`passage_count` counts DISTINCT passages reaching the object through the lexical, conceptual and ritual predicates this surface counts, and is the same figure the detail view reports. It is NULL, never 0, where no passage reaches it: the mention layer's measured recall is 0.8857, so a null is a lower bound and not an assertion that the corpus is silent.
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