n. (also m. g. ardharcādi; and f(I). , [MBh.]; [R.]; cf. [Uṇ. i, 117], Sch.) ‘liable to be crushed’, the edible fibrous root of some kinds of lotus (f. according to some ‘a smaller root’), a lotus-fibre, fibre attached to the stalk of a water-lily, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
n. the root of Andropogon Muricatus, [L.]