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784 Probably a *Dioscorea* species (see DGV V, 52–53; P.V. Sharma, 1979a: 90). *Āluka* is also identified as a species of *Alocasia*, *Amorphophallus paeoniifolius* (Dennst.) Nicolson = *A. campanulatus* Blume ex Decne., *Ipomoea batatas* (Linn.) Lam., a *Prunus* species, and *Solanum tuberosum* Linn., the potato (see, for example, AVI 363–364; Bhāvaprakāśa, ed. m; Chopra's Glossary; MW).