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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Kambuka (कम्बुक) is the name of an ancient city mentioned in the story “Devadatta the gambler”, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 26. Accordingly,  Vindurekhā narrated to Śaktideva “long ago there lived in the city of Kambuka a Brāhman named Haridatta; and the son of that auspicious man, who was named Devadatta, though he studied in his boyhood, was, as a young man, exclusively addicted to the vice of gaming”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Kambuka, is a famous Sanskrit epic story revolving around prince Naravāhanadatta and his quest to become the emperor of the vidyādharas (celestial beings). The work is said to have been an adaptation of Guṇāḍhya’s Bṛhatkathā consisting of 100,000 verses, which in turn is part of a larger work containing 700,000 verses.

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Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Kambuka in India is the name of a plant defined with Withania somnifera in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Physaloides somnifera Moench (among others).

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

· Journal of Palynology (1980)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1978)
· Feddes Repertorium (1999)
· De la Belladone (1825)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (DC.) (1852)
· Candollea (1993)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Kambuka, for example pregnancy safety, health benefits, side effects, chemical composition, extract dosage, diet and recipes, 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

Kambuka (कम्बुक).—

1) A conch-shell.

2) A mean or contemptible person.

Derivable forms: kambukaḥ (कम्बुकः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Kambuka (कम्बुक).—m. or nt. (= Sanskrit and Pali kambu), a shell-bracelet, forbidden monks to wear: Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya ii.95.7, 15; orig. was probably kañcuka (as Sanskrit) with Pali Vin. i.306.27.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kambuka (कम्बुक).—mfn.

(-kaḥ-kā-kaṃ) A mean person. m.

(-kaḥ) A conch. f.

(-kā) A tree (Physais flexuasa.) E. kan added to the last.

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Kāmbukā (काम्बुका).—f.

(-kā) A plant, (Physalis flexuosa:) see aśvagandhā.

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

1) Kambuka (कम्बुक):—[from kambu] m. a conch, shell, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] a mean person, [Horace H. Wilson]

3) Kambukā (कम्बुका):—[from kambuka > kambu] f. Physalis Flexuosa, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

4) Kambuka (कम्बुक):—[from kambu] n. Name of a town, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

5) Kambūka (कम्बूक):—[from kambu] m. the husk of rice, [Atharva-veda xi, 1, 29; Gṛhyāsaṃgraha]

6) Kāmbukā (काम्बुका):—[from kāmbavika] f. (= kamb) Physalis flexuosa, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

1) Kambuka (कम्बुक):—[(kaḥ-kā-kaṃ) a.] Mean, low. m. A conch. f. (kā) Physalis flexuosa.

2) Kāmbukā (काम्बुका):—(kā) 1. f. A plant (Physalis flexuosa).

[Sanskrit to German]

Kambuka 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

Kaṃbuka (ಕಂಬುಕ):—

1) [noun] = ಕಂಬು - [kambu -] 1.

2) [noun] = ಕಂಬಿಗ [kambiga]2 - 1.

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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)

Starts with: Kambukamdhara, Kambukamdhare, Kambukamthe, Kambukantha, Kambukanthi, Kambukashtha, Kampukam.

Ends with: Akambuka.

Full-text: Kabru, Kambukashtha, Haridatta, Kambu, Devadatta.

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The Linga Purana (by J. L. Shastri)

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The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)

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