Adhahpushpi, Adhaḥpuṣpī, Adhas-pushpi: 9 definitions

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Adhahpushpi means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, biology. 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.

The Sanskrit term Adhaḥpuṣpī can be transliterated into English as Adhahpuspi or Adhahpushpi, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

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Rasashastra (Alchemy and Herbo-Mineral preparations)

Source: Wisdom Library: Rasa-śāstra

Adhaḥpuṣpī (अधःपुष्पी):—One of the sixty-eight Siddhauṣadhi, as per Rasaśāstra texts (rasa literature). These drugs give siddhi (success) in mercurial operations. Even so, they are more powerful than rasa (mercury) itself. These may perform all the kāryas (‘effects’) and grant dehasiddhi (‘perfection of body’) and lohasiddhi (‘transmutation of base metals’) both.

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Adhaḥpuṣpī (अधःपुष्पी) is another name for Gojihvā, a medicinal plant identified with Onosma bracteatum Wall. (“true indigo”) from the Boraginaceae or “borage” family of flowering plants, according to verse 4.86-87 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The fourth chapter (śatāhvādi-varga) of this book enumerates eighty varieties of small plants (pṛthu-kṣupa). Together with the names Adhaḥpuṣpī and Gojihvā, there are a total of seven Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.

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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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Biology (plants and animals)

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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Adhahpuspi in India is the name of a plant defined with Trichodesma indicum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Borago indica L. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae (1810)
· Plantae e Familiae Asperifoliarum Nuciferae (1818)
· Cyclopaedia.
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Trichodesma (1817)
· Prodr. (DC.) (1846)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

[«previous next»] — Adhahpushpi in Sanskrit glossary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Adhaḥpuṣpī (अधःपुष्पी).—[adhomukhāni puṣpāṇi yasyāḥ] Names of two plants अवाक्- पुष्पी (avāk- puṣpī) (Pimpinella Anisum) and गोजिह्वा (gojihvā) Elephantopus (Seaber).

Adhaḥpuṣpī is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms adhas and puṣpī (पुष्पी).

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

Adhaḥpuṣpī (अधःपुष्पी).—f. (-ṣpī) A plant, (Hieracium.) E. adhas downwards, and puṣpa a flower.

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

Adhaḥpuṣpī (अधःपुष्पी):—[=adhaḥ-puṣpī] [from adhas] f. ‘having flowers looking downwards’, two plants Pimpinella Anisum and Elephantopus Scaber (or Hieracium?).

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

Adhaḥpuṣpī (अधःपुष्पी):—[bahuvrihi compound] f.

(-ṣpī) 1) A plant (Pimpinella anisun). See avākpuṣpī.

2) Another plant (Elephantopus scaber) or perhaps Hieracium. See gojihvā. E. adhas and puṣpa, fem. aff. ṅīṣ, lit. having its flowers hanging downwards.

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

Adhaḥpuṣpī (अधःपुष्पी):—[adhaḥ-puṣpī] (ṣpī) 2. f. A plant (Hieracium).

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Adhahpushpi 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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