Kadalī
Kadalī，1 （f．） [Sk．kadalī] -- 1．the plantain，Musa sapientium．Owing to the softness and unsubstantiality of its trunk it is used as a frequent symbol of unsubstantiality，transitoriness and worthlessness．As the plantain or banana plant always dies down after producing fruit，is destroyed as it were by its own fruit，it is used as a simile for a bad man destroyed by the fruit of his own deeds：S．I，154=Vin．II，188=S．II，241=A．II，73 =DhA．III，156； cp．Miln．166； -- as an image of unsubstantiality，Cp．III，24．The tree is used as ornament on great festivals：J．I，11； VI，590 （in simile），592； VvA．31．-- 2．a flag，banner，i．e．plantain leaves having the appearance of banners （-dhaja） J．V，195； VI，412．In cpds．kadali°．
--khandha the trunk of the plantain tree，often in similes as symbol of worthlessness，e．g．M．I，233= S．III，141=IV．167； Vism．479； Nd2 680 AII．； J．VI，442； as symbol of smoothness and beauty of limbs VvA．280； --taru the plantain tree Dāvs．V，49； --toraṇa a triumphal arch made of pl．stems and leaves Mhbv 169； --patta a pl．leaf used as an improvised plate to eat from J．V，4； DhA．I，59； --phala the fruit of the plantain J．V，37．（Page 185）