Rashi - Gochara - Bhava - Graha - Ratna - Nakshatra - Amsha - Varga

Planetary Herbs for Bhasman

Bhasma = sacred ash of incinerated herbs

1. Bhasman for Surya

2. Bhasman for Chandra

3. Bhasman for Mangala

4. Bhasman for Budha

5. Bhasman for Brihaspati

6. Bhasman for Shukra

7. Bhasman for Shani

8. Bhasman for Rahu

9. Bhasman for Ketu

Ruta Graveolens

www.scu.edu.au/schools/hahs/gfx/plants/R_graveolens.jpg

Surya-bhasma: flowers of the silk tree Albizia julibrissin

Sun

Bhasma for Surya

Calotropis Gigantea  = Asclepias gigantea  =  Arka-bhasman

 English

• Gigantic Swallow-wort = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Calotropis_gigantea.jpg

French-Arabic

• Alarka,

• Arbre-a-Soie, Albizia Julibrissin = https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albizia_julibrissin

Other Indic

• Aka, arka, akado, akanda, akda, akra, arkamu,

• Khok, Khark,

• Badabadam, byclospa,

• Ekka  =  Ekke (Kannada) Ekkemal  =  Erikka  =  Erikku  =  Erukku (Tamil) Yercum  =  yerkum

• Jilledu (Telegu)

• Surya pattra

Erythrina variegata

Sanskrit

• Parijata

Other Indic

• Madar, mandara, mandaramu, mudar, modar

Tibetan

• Mandaraba

English

• Coral Tree, tiger's Claw, sunshine Tree

Sunshine Tree  =  Sacred to Surya, naative to south Asia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flower_I_IMG_3974.jpg

Bhasma for Chandra

Artocarpus Integrifolia  =  Artocarpus heterophyllus = https://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Artocarpus.html#heterophyllus

- Panasa-bhasman

ENGLISH

• Jackfruit, Jackfruit tree.

HINDI

• Cakki, Kathal, Kanthal

 Mars

Bhasma for Mangala

Paspalum scrobiculatum - Khadira-bhasman

ENGLISH

• Scorbic (Aust.),
• Creeping paspalum, India n paspalum,
• Kodo millet
• Water couch

• " couch" in "couch grass " is from the old English 'cwiche', = "to quicken" . True to Kuja it grows fast and is highly invasive.

HINDI

• Kodo, Kodra
• Khadira

Bhasma for Budha

https://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Achyranthes.html

Achyranthes Aspera - Apamarga-bhasman = http://www.invasive.org/browse/subject.cfm?sub=4567

ENGLISh

• Devil's horsewhip
• Prickly chaff-flower

HINDI

• Latkana

Jupiter

Bhasma for Brihaspati

 Ficus Religiosa - Pippala-bhasman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_religiosa

NEPALI

• peepul

HINDI

• pippala , pipal, pipali, pipli

THAI

• Po

ENGLISH

• Sacred fig, sacred fig tree
• Bo tree, bodhi tree

AUM shum shukraya namah

Venus

Bhasma for Shukra

 Ficus Glomerata  =  Ficus racemosa - Audumbara-bhasman

https://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Ficus.html

ENGLISH

• Cluster tree, country fig, Gular fig, redwood fig, cluster fig

HINDI

• Doomar, domoor, Gular, Udumbara, Umar, Umbar

OM sham shanaishcharaye namah

Saturn

Bhasma for Shani

Sustainer of Dry Places

Prosopis cineraria - Shami-bhasma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopis_cineraria

" The tree prosopis cineraria is known as jand in Hindi and Punjabi, jandiin Haryanvi, khejriin Rajasthani, and sami or samriin Gujarati.

Referred to as the golden tree of Indian deserts, it plays a vital role in preserving the ecosystem of arid and semi-arid areas. https://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020928/windows/main2.htm

Arabic

• ghaf

Rajasthani

• khejri

Punjabi, Hindi

• jand, jandi

Gujarati

• sami, samri,
• shum

https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Prosopis_cineraria.html

Rahu

Bhasma for Rahu

https://www.botgard.ucla.edu

Cynodon Dactylon - Durva-bhasman

https://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Cynodon.html

ENGLISH

• Bermuda grass, scutch grass, star grass.

NEPALI

• Dubo, Panjaa, Seto duvo, Situu.

Ketu

Bhasma for Ketu

 Poa cynosuroides  =  Kusha-bhasman  =  Kutha-bhasman

English

• Big cordgrass or Salt reed-grass, and in Australia, as Halfa grass

Intl

• Sacrificial Grass, Kusha Grass

Sanskrit

• kutapa, kutha, kuza, pavitraka, vahni

" It grows beside brackish (salty) water such as found at the mouths of rivers and is a kind of tussock grass; that is, it grows in clumps. When it is dry, kusa straw is called durva or dharbai. However, some say these are two different species: Kusha is Poa cynosuroides and Durva, agrostis linearis."

https://www.khandro.net/nature_plants_kusha.htm

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