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Ayurveda (science of life)

Dietetics and Culinary Art (such as household cooking)

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

Tokma (तोक्म) refers to “malted barley (yava)” according to the Śatapathabrāhmaṇa, and is commonly found in literature dealing with the topics of dietetics and culinary art, also known as Pākaśāstra or Pākakalā.—Barley (yava) is the ancient staple food known to Vedic Indians and thus it enjoyed the staple food status in this period. [...] Śatapathabrāhmaṇa mentions the malted barley known as tokma.

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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

Tokma (तोक्म).—

1) A young green blade of corn, green barley; Bhāgavata 4.21.2.

2) Green colour.

3) A cloud.

-kmam The wax of the ear.

Derivable forms: tokmaḥ (तोक्मः).

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

Tokma (तोक्म).—m.

(-kmaḥ) 1. Green or unripe barley. 2. Green, (the colour.) n.

(-kmaṃ) 1. The wax of the ear. 2. A cloud. E. tak to deride, ma affix, and o substituted for the radical vowel; it is also written tokya.

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

Tokma (तोक्म).— (akin to toka), m. Green barley, [Bhāgavata-Purāṇa, (ed. Burnouf.)] 4, 21, 2.

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

Tokma (तोक्म).—[masculine] tokman [neuter] a young green blade, [especially] of corn.

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

1) Tokma (तोक्म):—[from toka] a m. See man

2) [v.s. ...] a young shoot, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa x]

3) [v.s. ...] green colour, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

4) [v.s. ...] n. ear-wax, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

5) [v.s. ...] a cloud, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

6) [from tokman > toka] b (m., [Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra xix, 1; Bhāgavata-purāṇa iv])

7) [v.s. ...] offspring, [Naighaṇṭuka, commented on by Yāska ii, 2.]

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

Tokma (तोक्म):—(kmaḥ) 1. m. Green or unripe barley; greenness, green colour. n. Wax of the ear; a cloud.

[Sanskrit to German]

Tokma 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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Starts with: Tokman.

Full-text: Tokman, Apupa.

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Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)

Rig Veda 10.62.8 < [Sukta 62]

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Satapatha-brahmana (by Julius Eggeling)

Kāṇḍa XII, adhyāya 7, brāhmaṇa 3 < [Twelfth Kāṇḍa]

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