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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Apehivātā (अपेहिवाता).—Name of a plant which expels wind.

Apehivātā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms apehi and vātā (वाता).

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

Apehivātā (अपेहिवाता):—[=apehi-vātā] [from apehi > ape] ([scilicet] latā) f. ‘useful in expelling wind’, the plant Poederia Foetida, [Suśruta]

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

Apehivātā (अपेहिवाता):—[bahuvrihi compound] f.

(-tā) The name of a plant (Pœderia fœtida), a decoction of which is given against the disease granthi q. v.; e. g. in Suśruta: apehivātādaśamūlasiddhaṃ vaidyaścatuḥmnehamatho dvayaṃ vā (scil. vidadhyāt). E. apehi (imper. of i with apa) and vāta, scil. (probably) oṣadhi or latā; liter. ‘a plant by which wind is expelled’; see the explanation s. v. apehivāṇijā.

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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: Apehi, Vata.

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