In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Durgraha (दुर्ग्रह) is another name for Apāmārga, a medicinal plant identified with Achyranthes aspera Linn. (“prickly chaff-flower”) from the Amaranthaceae or “amaranth” family of flowering plants, according to verse 4.88-91 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The fourth chapter (śatāhvādi-varga) of this book enumerates eighty varieties of small plants (pṛthu-kṣupa). Together with the names Durgraha and Apāmārga, there are a total of twenty-three Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.

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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.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: archive.org: Bulletin of the French School of the Far East (volume 5)

Durgrahā (दुर्ग्रहा) [?] is the name of a Goddess appointed as one of the Divine protector deities of Aśva, according to chapter 17 of the Candragarbha: the 55th section of the Mahāsaṃnipāta-sūtra, a large compilation of Sūtras (texts) in Mahāyāna Buddhism partly available in Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese.—In the Candragarbhasūtra, the Bhagavat invites all classes of Gods and Deities to protect the Law [dharma?] and the faithful in their respective kingdoms of Jambudvīpa [e.g., the Goddesses Durgrahā in Aśva], resembling the time of the past Buddhas.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Durgraha in India is the name of a plant defined with Achyranthes aspera in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Centrostachys indica (L.) Standl. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Flora Indica (1824)
· Opera Botanica (1993)
· Flora of West Pakistan (1974)
· Economic Botany (1981)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1982)
· Phytomedicine. (2002)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Durgraha, for example side effects, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, health benefits, diet and recipes, chemical composition, have a look at these references.

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Durgraha (दुर्ग्रह).—a.

1) difficult to be gained or accomplished.

2) difficult to be conquered or subjugated; दुर्गाणि दुर्ग्रहाण्यासन् तस्य रोद्धुरपि द्विषाम् (durgāṇi durgrahāṇyāsan tasya roddhurapi dviṣām) R.17.52.

3) hard to be understood. (-haḥ) 1 a cramp, spasm.

2) obstinacy.

3) whim, monomania; कथं न वा दुर्ग्रहदोष एष ते हितेन सम्य- ग्गुरुणापि शम्यते (kathaṃ na vā durgrahadoṣa eṣa te hitena samya- gguruṇāpi śamyate) N.9.41.

Durgraha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms dur and graha (ग्रह).

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

Durgraha (दुर्ग्रह).—I. m. a wicked imp, [Kathāsaritsāgara, (ed. Brockhaus.)] 17, 130. Ii. adj. 1. Difficult to be conquered, [Raghuvaṃśa, (ed. Stenzler.)] 17, 52. 2. Difficult to be performed, Mahābhārata 12, 775.

Durgraha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms dus and graha (ग्रह).

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

Durgraha (दुर्ग्रह).—1. [adjective] the same + difficult to be overcome, gained, understood.

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Durgraha (दुर्ग्रह).—2. [masculine] stubbornness, a foolish whim; an evil demon (causing diseases).

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

1) Durgraha (दुर्ग्रह):—[=dur-graha] [from dur] m. ‘seizing badly’, the evil demon of illness, spasm, cramp, [Suśruta; Kathāsaritsāgara]

2) [v.s. ...] obstinacy, insisting upon ([locative case]), whim, monomania, [Kathāsaritsāgara lviii, 62 etc.; Naiṣadha-carita ix, 41]

3) [v.s. ...] mfn. d° to be seized or caught or attained or won or accomplished or understood, [Kāṭhaka xxxi, 15; Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature etc.]

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Durgraha (दुर्ग्रह) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Duggaha, Duggijjha.

[Sanskrit to German]

Durgraha 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

Dugrraha (ದುಗ್ರ್ರಹ):—

1) [adjective] that is difficult to hold or handle.

2) [adjective] that is very difficult to understand.

3) [adjective] that is difficult to get, possess or attain.

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Dugrraha (ದುಗ್ರ್ರಹ):—[noun] a planet which is believed to be unfavourable or cruel to a person during certain period of time (depending on its position).

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Dur, Graha, Dush.

Full-text: Duggaha, Duggijjha, Savigraha, Duragraha, Ashva, Apamarga.

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