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Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Advances in Zoology and Botany: Ethnomedicinal List of Plants Treating Fever in Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra, India

Āskanda (or Āskaṃda) in the Marathi language refers to the medicinal under-shrub “Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal.”, and is used for ethnomedicine treatment of Fever in Ahmednagar district, India. The parts used are: “Dried mature roots”.

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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.

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Wisdom Library: Local Names of Plants and Drugs

Askanda [आस्कंद] in the Marathi language is the name of a plant identified with Withania somnifera (L.) Dun. from the Solanaceae (Potato) family. For the possible medicinal usage of askanda, you can check this page for potential sources and references, although be aware that any some or none of the side-effects may not be mentioned here, wether they be harmful or beneficial to health.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

askanda (अस्कंद).—m (aśrvagandhā S) A plant, Physalis flexuosa.

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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 dictionary

Āskanda (आस्कन्द).—

1) An attack, assault; assailling; utraging; परवनिता °प्रगल्भस्य (paravanitā °pragalbhasya) Ve.2. विविधास्कन्दनाकाक्ङ्क्षी (vividhāskandanākākṅkṣī) ... Śiva. B.31.68.

2) Ascending, mounting; treading, stepping over; चरणास्कन्दननामिताचलेन्द्रः (caraṇāskandananāmitācalendraḥ) Kirātārjunīya 13.18.

3) Reproach, abuse.

4) The walk of a horse.

5) An assailant

6) Battle, war.

7) Drying.

8) Effacing destroying. आस्कन्दनं तिरस्कारे रणे संशोषणेऽपि च (āskandanaṃ tiraskāre raṇe saṃśoṣaṇe'pi ca) Medinī.

Derivable forms: āskandaḥ (आस्कन्दः).

See also (synonyms): āskandana.

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

Āskanda (आस्कन्द).—[ā-skand + a], m. Mounting, [Kathāsaritsāgara, (ed. Brockhaus.)] 26, 36.

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

Askanda (अस्कन्द).—[masculine] tva [neuter] not spilling.

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Āskanda (आस्कन्द).—[masculine] ascending; assault, onset.

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

1) Askanda (अस्कन्द):—[=a-skanda] m. the non-spilling (as of the semen virile), [Taittirīya-saṃhitā; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa]

2) Āskanda (आस्कन्द):—[=ā-skanda] [from ā-skand] m. ascending, mounting, jumping upon, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

3) [v.s. ...] attack, assault, [Rājataraṅgiṇī] etc.

4) [v.s. ...] a die (especially the fourth), [Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā; Taittirīya-saṃhitā]

5) [v.s. ...] a manner of recitation, [Lāṭyāyana]

[Sanskrit to German]

Askanda 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Āskaṃda (ಆಸ್ಕಂದ):—[noun] = ಆಸ್ಕಂದನ [askamdana].

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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)

Partial matches: Skanda, A, Skandha.

Starts with: Askandaka, Askandam, Askandana, Askandatva, Askandayant, Askandayat.

Ends with (+4): Abaraskanda, Abhyavaskanda, Avaskanda, Ayaskanda, Dhiraskanda, Dirghaskanda, Ghanaskanda, Ghranaskanda, Godhaskanda, Kalaskanda, Kartapraskanda, Mahaskanda, Nilaskanda, Paraskanda, Paryavaskanda, Praskanda, Pratyavaskanda, Rudraskanda, Samavaskanda, Shivaskanda.

Full-text: Askandam, Askandatva, Askannatva, Askandayat, Ghantakarna, Tiruttanikai, Askandana, Katirkamam, Askanna, Tiruverakam, Tiruccentur, Askandin, Askandita, Ganga.

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Satapatha-brahmana (by Julius Eggeling)

Kāṇḍa XIII, adhyāya 6, brāhmaṇa 2 < [Thirteenth Kāṇḍa]

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The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)

Chapter 142 - The Greatness of Rukmiṇī Tīrtha < [Section 3 - Revā-khaṇḍa]

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