The Sanskrit term Rāgaṣāḍava can be transliterated into English as Ragasadava or Ragashadava, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Dietetics and Culinary Art (such as household cooking)

Source: Shodhganga: Dietetics and culinary art in ancient and medieval India

Rāgaṣāḍava (रागषाडव) refers to a type of fruit-preparation, according to the Carakasaṃhitā Sūtrasthāna 27, and is commonly found in literature dealing with the topics of dietetics and culinary art, also known as Pākaśāstra or Pākakalā.—We can see the description of flowering and fruit bearing plants in Ṛgveda. But we come across the specific names of them only in the later Saṃhita and Brāhmaṇa literature. [...] Caraka states that rāgaṣāḍava should be fumigated with oil and dry ginger and some salt and spices are to be added to it before use. Later in the medieval period text Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha, of all the fruits, grapes were considered the best and lakuca the worst.

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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

Rāgaṣāḍava (रागषाडव).—a kind of sweetmeat.

Derivable forms: rāgaṣāḍavaḥ (रागषाडवः).

Rāgaṣāḍava is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms rāga and ṣāḍava (षाडव).

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

Rāgaṣāḍava (रागषाडव):—[=rāga-ṣāḍava] [from rāga] (or -ṣāḍhava) m. a kind of sweetmeat or syrup compounded of grapes and pomegranates and the juice of Phaseolus Mungo (or of half ripe mango fruit with ginger, cardamoms, oil, butter etc.), [Rāmāyaṇa; Suśruta] (also written rāga-khāḍava cf. rāga-khāṇḍava).

[Sanskrit to German]

Ragashadava 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.

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Partial matches: Shadava, Raga.

Full-text: Ragakhadava, Ragakhandava, Lakuca.

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