Hindi name of Leucas lanata

[Dinesh Valke]

Dear friends,

At ENVIS - FRLHT, a name bis kapra is listed for Leucas lanata; same name is found in a study paper.

Would it be written as: बिस कपड़ा ? Please help.

Regards.

Dinesh

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Dinesh ji. 

What can be the meaning?

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[Tapas Chakrabarty]

Dinesh ji & Garg ji,

Bis has two meanings in Hindi:

विष = poison

बीस = twenty

Kapra = cloth.

Regards,

Tapas.

[Dinesh Valke]

I do not know the meaning, Garg ji.

बिस could be विष (poison) OR lesser possibility as the number twenty, and कपड़ा could be कपडा (cloth) - frankly I have no idea whether these guesses are any good. Not able to connect Leucas plant to either poison or cloth. This name is certainly a local name popular in at least the two villages (Utpalta and Kwarka) of Chakrata Forest Division, as the study paper reads.

I referred V. Singh's Monograph on Indian Leucas R.Br. This name is not listed - perhaps is not much known. 

Names listed for Hindi are dhurlu ghaas (some dhurlu grass) and the generic name गुमा guma 

I am not sure how dhurlu is spelled in Devanagari, will need help. 

The name is known in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh ... found in a ethnobotanical paper.

I was writing my thoughts while we received Tapas ji's response. Our thoughts match !

Regards.

Dinesh

 

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 7:28 PM, J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com> wrote:

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Dinesh ji and Tapas ji,  for these thoughts. 

[J.M. Garg]

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[Dinesh Valke]

Today, while re-compiling names for Leucas lanata, I stumbled across the name बिसखपरा bis-khapra OR बिसखोपरा bis-khopra of which the literal meaning is "poison-headed".

Reference: A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English by John T. Platts

The name is not listing Leucas lanata, rather lists: Trianthema pentandra, or T. obcordatum; the plant Mezoneurum cucullatum (Desfontaines), or Cæsalpinia cucullata (Roxb.) ... (copy-pasted as-is from the dictionary).

Leucas lanata ... was not able to find if it was of any health hazard; the plant is used as an antidote for reptile poison.
Reference article: Champati, Bibhuti & Jena, Sudipta & Ray, Asit & Mohanty, Swagat & Sahoo, Ambika & Das, Prabhat & Kar, Subrat & Sahoo, Tirthabrata & Nayak, Sanghamitra & Panda, Pratap. (2023). Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Activity of Essential Oil of Leucas lanata. Chemistry of Natural Compounds. 59. 386-388. 10.1007/s10600-023-04001-y.

Regards.

Dinesh

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