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Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: gurumukhi.ru: Ayurveda glossary of terms

Divāsvapa (दिवास्वप):—Sleeping during day time. It should be avoid by healthy individuals other wise it may causes increase of kapha, Meda. except during grisma(summer) at all other time day sleep is probhited. Day sleep is not nap.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Divāsvāpa (दिवास्वाप).—sleep during day-time.

-paḥ an owl.

Derivable forms: divāsvāpaḥ (दिवास्वापः).

Divāsvāpa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms divā and svāpa (स्वाप). See also (synonyms): divāsvapna.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Divāsvāpa (दिवास्वाप).—m. sleeping by day, [Suśruta] 1, 330, 5.

Divāsvāpa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms divā and svāpa (स्वाप).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Divāsvāpa (दिवास्वाप):—[=divā-svāpa] [from divā > div] m. idem, [Suśruta]

2) [v.s. ...] mfn. sleeping by day,

3) Divāsvāpā (दिवास्वापा):—[=divā-svāpā] [from divā-svāpa > divā > div] f. a kind of night-bird (= valgulā), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Divasvapa in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Divāsvāpa (ದಿವಾಸ್ವಾಪ):—[noun] a sleeping during day time.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Partial matches: Diva, Svapa, Tiva.

Starts with: Divasvapana.

Full-text: Divasvapna.

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