ivy's names

[DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA]

At 10:19 PM 9/18/97 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, S Krishna wrote:
>
>> 2. It is interesting that Tamil and Malayalam call it maravalai and
>> maravalli since Dr Raghuviras English-Hindi dictionary says that it is
>> called maravalli in Hindi also. These would then( reasonably in my
>> opinion) point to some Sanskritic origin ( unless the valli has
>> something to do with the wife of Murugan)
>
>Or equally reasonably to a Dravidian origin for the Hindi word, without
>bringing in murukan and vaLLi.
>
>Vidyasankar
>
>

Here the word valli appears to have the familiar meaning `creaper'.

sarma.