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Source: Wisdom Library: Āyurveda and botany

Tālapralamba (तालप्रलम्ब) is a Sanskrit word referring to Borassus flabellifer (doub palm), a plant species in the Arecaceae family. Certain plant parts of Tālapralamba are eaten as a vegetable (śāka), according to Caraka in his Carakasaṃhitā sūtrasthāna (chapter 27), a classical Ayurvedic work. The plant is therefore part of the Śākavarga group of medicinal plants, referring to the “group of vegetables/pot-herbs”. Caraka defined such groups (vargas) based on the dietic value of the plant.

According to the Rājanighaṇṭu (verse 9.83), the same Borassus flabellifer is identified with Tāla / Tāladruma.

Properties according to Caraka-saṃhitā: Tālapralamba (tender top portion of tāla stem) alleviates wound and pain in chest. The fruit of tāla is useful in internal haemorrhage and wasting.

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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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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Tālapralamba (तालप्रलम्ब).—the fibres of the palm tree (Mar. kāthyā).

Derivable forms: tālapralambaḥ (तालप्रलम्बः).

Tālapralamba is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms tāla and pralamba (प्रलम्ब). See also (synonyms): tālajaṭā.

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

Tālapralamba (तालप्रलम्ब).—n.

(-mbaṃ) The fibres that grow on the cocoanut and other palms under the outer rind and from which Coir a sort of cordage, prepared. E. tāla, and pralamba what depends. tāle vṛkṣe pralambate pra + lamba-ac . tālavṛkṣasya jaṭāyām .

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

Tālapralamba (तालप्रलम्ब):—[=tāla-pralamba] [from tāla] m. = -jaṭā, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Tālapralamba (तालप्रलम्ब):—[tāla-pralamba] (mbaṃ) 1. n. Fibres of the cocoanut which make coir.

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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: Pralamba, Tala.

Full-text: Talajata, Tala, Ajivika, Shakavarga.

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