Kvatha, Kvātha: 19 definitions
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In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Rasashastra (Alchemy and Herbo-Mineral preparations)
Source: CCRAS: Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia of India, Appendix IKvātha or Kaṣāya is the filtered liquid obtained by boiling coarse powder of drug(s) in proportion of 4, 8 or 16 (Mṛdu-dravya - 4, Madhyama-dravya - 8 and Kaṭhina-dravya - 16 respectively) times of water and reduced to one-fourth. (see the Śārṅgadhara-saṃhitā II.9.3, which is a 14th century medicinal Ayurvedic treatise in Sanskrit written by Śārṅgadhara).
Kalpa (Formulas, Drug prescriptions and other Medicinal preparations)
Source: Shodhganga: Edition translation and critical study of yogasarasamgrahaKvātha (क्वाथ, “decoction”) is another name for Kaṣāya, a Sanskrit technical term appearing in the 15th-century Yogasārasaṅgraha (Yogasara-saṅgraha) by Vāsudeva..—At first medicinal plants are dried in shade, cut into pieces or pounded, if necessary. According to the hardness of the drugs, four, eight or sixteen times of water is added and then boiled till about one fourth remains. It is then filtered through a cloth and the filtrate is used as medicine.
Unclassified Ayurveda definitions
Source: Academia.edu: Ayurveda and PharmaceuticsKvātha (Decoction): Herbs are boiled in water without a lid till three-fourths or more water is evaporated. The filtrate is known as kvātha. This process is useful to extract medicinal qualities of herbs with hard consistency. The herbs containing volatile oils are not used to make kvāthas. These forms of medicines are easy to digest and effective in action. Example: Daśamūlāriṣṭa. Kvathas are usually taken orally. They are also used for tub-bath (avagāhana) as external use. Kvāthacūrna means certain drugs or combination of drugs are made into coarse powder and used to prepare kaṣāya.
Source: Amala Ayurveda: Ayurveda MedicinesKvatha is prepared by boiling the herb (about 60gms or 1 pala) in 16 parts of water in an earthen pot over a mild fire till it is reduced to 1/8 of the original amount. About 120g of decoction can be administered at a time, slightly warmed, after the food has digested. For example, Guducyadi-kvatha.
Source: Ayurveda News: Panchavidha Kashaya KalpanaKvatha (Decoction): Kvatha is prepared by boiling 1 part of herb with 16 parts of water in an open vessel on mild fire till it reduces to one-eighth of the original quantity. The quantity of water may be four times, eight times or sixteen times the quantity of the part of the plant. This variation in the amount of water depends on the hardness of the material used. Like, it may be simply four times in soft herbs (herbs whose leaves and flowers are used), eight times for medium hardness (includes soft barks of plants, roots of shrubs and plants, soft roots, tubers and medium tubers), while sixteen times in case where the plant material to be used for preparing decoction is too hard (Hard barks of trees, root bark of trees and creeper).
Source: gurumukhi.ru: Ayurveda glossary of termsKvātha (क्वाथ):—Synonym of kashaya boiled & filtered liquid of herbs for specific time used for the therapeutics & pharmaceutical manufacturing
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarykvātha (क्वाथ).—m S A decoction: also a thing boiled.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishkvātha (क्वाथ).—m A decoction, a thing boiled.
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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryKvatha (क्वथ).—A decoction, solution prepared with a continued or gentle heat.
Derivable forms: kvathaḥ (क्वथः).
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Kvātha (क्वाथ).—[kvath-karaṇe ghañ]
1) A decoction, solution prepared with a continued or gentle heat.
2) The mixture of the materials for decoction.
3) Pain, sorrow, distress.
Derivable forms: kvāthaḥ (क्वाथः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryKvātha (क्वाथ).—(m.; in this meaning Sanskrit Lex.), misery, sorrow: asmābhir anena kvātha-kāyena prāptavyaṃ prāptaṃ (so punctuate) Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.5.17, by this body of misery we have got all we could get.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryKvātha (क्वाथ).—m.
(-thaḥ) 1. A decoction, any solution or infusion prepared with a continued and gentle heat. 2. Pain, sorrow. 3. Calamity, distress. 4. The mixture of the materials for a decoction. E. kvatha to decoct, ghañ aff.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryKvātha (क्वाथ).—i. e. kvath + a, m. A decoction, [Suśruta] 2, 85, 10.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryKvatha (क्वथ).—[masculine] decoction, extract.
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Kvātha (क्वाथ).—[masculine] boiling, decoction.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Kvatha (क्वथ):—[from kvath] m. ([gana] jvalādi) a decoction, extract.
2) Kvātha (क्वाथ):—[from kvath] a m. ([gana] jvalādi) boiling, [Yājñavalkya iii, 253 [Scholiast or Commentator]]
3) [v.s. ...] a decoction, any solution or infusion prepared with a continued or gentle heat, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā vli, 49; Suśruta; Śārṅgadhara-saṃhitā]
4) [v.s. ...] the mixture of the materials for a decoction, [Horace H. Wilson]
5) [v.s. ...] pain, sorrow, distress, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
6) b etc. See √kvath.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryKvātha (क्वाथ):—(thaḥ) 1. m. A decoction; pain.
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Kvātha (क्वाथ) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Kāḍha.
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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 corpusKvātha (ಕ್ವಾಥ):—[noun] an extract or the essence, flavour, etc. produced of by boiling; a decoction.
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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Full-text (+23): Kvathodbhava, Avakvatha, Ikshurasakvatha, Kvatharasa, Kashaya, Sudhadharakvathastotra, Prakvatha, Nidigdhikadikvatha, Kvath, Utkvatha, Nishkvatha, Darvikvathodbhava, Ikshurasoda, Kvathi, Kadha, Kuvatam, Shvetasthi, Rasanjana, Rasnasaptakakvatha, Pancabhadrakvatha.
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