kshamimca'li.
The name you suggested for manda'ra in your posting was "senda'marai" in
Tamil. I am afraid to say that it stands for red lotus. In Tamil:
senda'marai = red lotus
sen (sem) = red ; da'marai = lotus (ta'mara)
The names in use in Tamil for mamda'ra are:
(1) sembarattai
sevanda = red; paratii = pratti (As the flower looks like pratti)
(Another Hibiscus species i.e. H. mutabilis)
(2) sapattuppu
(This is the correct one for the China Rose).
Any way, it is interesting to notice that "da'marai" in Tamil and
"ta'mara" in Telugu and "paratti" in Tamil and "pratti" in Telugu
are ve...ry close to each other.
--pa'lana
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