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śamī

śámī f. (cf. śámi) effort, labour, toil, [RV.]; [VS.]

(śamī́) the Śamī tree, Prosopis Spicigera or (accord. to others) Mimosa Suma (possessing a very tough hard wood supposed to contain fire, cf. [Mn. viii, 247]; [Ragh. iii, 9]; it was employed to kindle the sacred fire, and a legend relates that Purū-ravas generated primeval fire by the friction of two branches of the Śamī and Aśvattha trees), [AV.] &c.

a legume, pod (cf. -jāti)

a partic. measure (see catuh-ś°) = valgulī or vāguji, [L.]