The Sanskrit term Puṣpacaya can be transliterated into English as Puspacaya or Pushpacaya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Pushpachaya.

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Agriculture (Krishi) and Vrikshayurveda (study of Plant life)

Source: Shodhganga: Drumavichitrikarnam—Plant mutagenesis in ancient India

Puṣpacaya (पुष्पचय) refers to “produce flowers in bunches”, as a result of certain bio-organical recipes for plant mutagenesis, according to the Vṛkṣāyurveda by Sūrapāla (1000 CE): an encyclopedic work dealing with the study of trees and the principles of ancient Indian agriculture.—Accordingly, “If bulbs of various species of Nymphaea are uprooted tied together firmly with threads, smeared with melted butter and honey and then planted they produce those respective species in bunches (puṣpacaya) (on a single creeper) [coptaṃ tathā tathā puṣpacayaṃ dadhāti]. Similarly several wonders of transformation can be worked out by tying together the stems of Nerium indicum and those of various species of Punica granatum”.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Puṣpacaya (पुष्पचय).—

1) gathering flowers

2) a quantity of flowers.

Derivable forms: puṣpacayaḥ (पुष्पचयः).

Puṣpacaya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms puṣpa and caya (चय).

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

Puṣpacaya (पुष्पचय).—m.

(-yaḥ) 1. A quantity of flowers. 2. Gathering flowers. E. puṣpa and caya gathering.

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

1) Puṣpacaya (पुष्पचय):—[=puṣpa-caya] [from puṣpa > puṣ] m. a quantity of f°, [Horace H. Wilson]

2) [v.s. ...] gathering f°, [ib.]

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

Puṣpacaya (पुष्पचय):—[puṣpa-caya] (yaṃ) 1. n. A gathering of flowers; a quantity of flowers.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Pushpa, Caya.

Starts with: Pushpacayanam.

Full-text: Dhradi, Caya.

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