शाल्मलि

{ śālmaliḥ, śālmali }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

ŚĀLMALI   A King of the lunar dynasty. He was the grandson of Kuru and son of Avikṣit. He had seven brothers. [Ādi Parva, Chapter 94, Verse 52] .

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : सेमल

महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश

 पु. स्त्री . सांवरी ; शेवरीचें झाड . [ सं . ]

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

शाल्मलि  f.  mf. (or f( °ली).; cf. शल्मलि॑) the Seemul or silk-cotton tree, Bombax Heptaphyllum or Salmalia Malabarica (a lofty and thorny tree with red flowers; its thorns are supposed to be used for torture in one of the hells [ cf. कूत-श्°], or it may stand for the N. of that hell), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
one of the 7 द्वीपs or great divisions of the known continent (so called from the above tree said to grow there; it is surrounded by the sea of ghee or clarified butter), [MBh.]; [Pur.]
क्रौड्यादि  f.  patr. of a man ( f. °ल्या) g.
N. of a son of अविक्षित्, [MBh.]
of another man descended from Agasti, [Hcat.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

शाल्मलिः [śālmaliḥ]   1 The silk-cotton tree; आपातरम्यपुष्पश्री- शोभितः शाल्मलिर्यथा [Bv.1.115;] [Ms.8.246.]
One of the seven great divisions of the earth.
 N. N. of a kind of hell. -Comp.
-पत्रकः   Alstonia Scholaris (Mar. सातवीण).
स्थः an epithet of Garuḍa.
a vulture.

Shabda-Sagara

शाल्मलि  mf.  ( -लिः-ली)
1. The silk-cotton tree, (Bombax heptaphyllum.) 2. One of the seven Dwipas, or islands or great divisions of the [Page716-a+ 60] known eontinent; denominated from the tree first mentioned, said to grow there: it is surrounded by the sea of Ghee or clarified butter.
E. शल् to go, causal form, क्विप् aff., शाल् exuding, emitting, मल् to hold, aff. इन् and ङीष् optionally added; also

ROOTS:

शल् क्विप् शाल् मल् इन् ङीष्

with अच् aff. शाल्मल, and with the first vowel short, शल्मलि, &c.