Vatajvara, Vātajvara, Vata-jvara: 8 definitions
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Vatajvara means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Source: archive.org: Science And Technology In Medievel India (Ayurveda)Vātajvara (वातज्वर) or Vātajvaracikitsā is the name of a topic dealt with in the Kvāthādhikāra, as mentioned in A. Rahman’s Science and Technology in Medievel India: A bibliography of source materials in Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian.—Ancient and medieval India produced a wide range of scientific manuscripts and major contributions lie in the field of medicine, astronomy and mathematics, besides covering encyclopedic glossaries and technical dictionaries.—Vātajvara-cikitsā and other chapters of the Kvāthādhikāra deal with the treatment of fevers.
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 Dictionaryvātajvara (वातज्वर).—m (S) Fever occasioned by the prevalence of the humor vāta.
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 dictionaryVātajvara (वातज्वर).—fever arising from vitiated wind.
Derivable forms: vātajvaraḥ (वातज्वरः).
Vātajvara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms vāta and jvara (ज्वर).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryVātajvara (वातज्वर).—m.
(-raḥ) Fever arising from vitiated wind. E. vāta and jvara fever.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryVātajvara (वातज्वर):—[=vāta-jvara] [from vāta > vā] m. ‘w°-fever’, fever arising from vitiated w°, [Catalogue(s)]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryVātajvara (वातज्वर):—[vāta-jvara] (raḥ) 1. m. A particular fever.
[Sanskrit to German]
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 corpusVātajvara (ವಾತಜ್ವರ):—[noun] a fever arising from the vitiated windy humour of the body.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with: Vatajvaracikitsa, Vatajvarapratikara.
Ends with: Kaphapittavatajvara, Kaphavatajvara, Samdhivatajvara.
Full-text: Vatajvarapratikara.
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Jivanandana of Anandaraya Makhin (Study) (by G. D. Jayalakshmi)
Medicines administered for different diseases < [Chapter 4 - Āyurvedic principles in Jīvanandana Nāṭaka]
Sushruta Samhita, volume 3: Sharirasthana (by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna)
Atharvaveda and Charaka Samhita (by Laxmi Maji)
1b. Study of Fever (Jvara) in the Caraka-Saṃhita < [Chapter 5 - Diseases and Remedies in Atharvaveda and Caraka-Saṃhitā]
Sushruta Samhita, Volume 6: Uttara-tantra (by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna)
Chapter XXXIX - Symptoms and Treatment of Fever (Jvara) < [Canto III - Kaya-chikitsa-tantra (internal medicine)]