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bhaṅga

hemp (bhaṅga)

Hemp, 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".

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