Ūrvāruka

Ūrvāruka, “a kind of cucumber”

Grammar: masculine noun.

Meaning: a plant, which the text glosses as kakaḍī, a kind of cucumber.

In the scriptures: the kalaśa placed between the kuṇḍa and the Vāstu-vedī takes seven kinds of soil, and then these plants: Indravallī, Vishṇukāntā, Amṛtī, the plant glossed as cucumber, Mālatī, Campaka and Ūrvāruka.

Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Madhyama Parva, Bhāga 2, Chapters 10–13

Related terms: Indravallī · Kalaśa

Sources

• Bhavishya Purāṇa, Madhyama Parva, Bhāga 2, Chapters 10–13