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Re: nandini and nandana
This probably doesn't help, but a popular garden plant called Nandina domestica is known in English as Sacred bamboo.It's evergreen and shrubby, and turns wonderful shades of red in cold weather, so it certainly does give happiness!
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Interesting. Did not know that. A little checking shows that nandina is from Japanese 南天 composed of:unicode: 0x5357 21335
pron.: *nom||naam4|nan2|NAN2 NA1|NAM|nam|NAN DAN|MINAMI
south; southern part; southwardandunicode: 0x5929 22825
pron.: *ten||tin1|tian1 tian5|TIAN1|CHEN|thiên|TEN|AME SORA
sky, heaven; god, celestial
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