The Sanskrit term Hastiśuṇḍā can be transliterated into English as Hastisunda or Hastishunda, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Hastisunda in India is the name of a plant defined with Heliotropium indicum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Eliopia riparia Raf. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Bolivia) Comunicación (1990)
· Plantae e Familiae Asperifoliarum Nuciferae (1818)
· Sylva Telluriana (1838)
· Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress Association (1982)
· Prodromus Stirpium in Horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium (1796)
· Rapid Assessment Program Working Papers (1998)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Hastisunda, for example extract dosage, side effects, pregnancy safety, health benefits, diet and recipes, chemical composition, have a look at these references.

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

hastiśuṇḍā (हस्तिशुंडा).—f (S) An elephant's trunk.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Hastiśuṇḍā (हस्तिशुण्डा).—A kind of shrub (Mar. iṃdravāruṇī, -kavaṃḍaḷa).

Hastiśuṇḍā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms hastin and śuṇḍā (शुण्डा). See also (synonyms): hastiśuṇḍī.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Hastisuṇḍā (हस्तिसुण्डा).—f. (-ṇḍā or -ṇḍī) 1. An elephant’s trunk. 2. A flower, (Heliotropium Indicum.) E. hastin an elephant, śuṇḍā the trunk.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Hastiśuṇḍa (हस्तिशुण्ड):—[=hasti-śuṇḍa] [from hasti > hasta] m. an el°’s trunk, [Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary]

2) Hastiśuṇḍā (हस्तिशुण्डा):—[=hasti-śuṇḍā] [from hasti-śuṇḍa > hasti > hasta] f. idem, [ib.]

3) [v.s. ...] Heliotropium Indicum, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Hastiśuṇḍā (हस्तिशुण्डा):—[hasti-śuṇḍā] (ṇḍā) 1. f. A flower, Heliotropium; elephant’s trunk.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Sunda, Hastin, Cunta.

Full-text: Hastishundi, Jalecchaya, Amara, Sunda.

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