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Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Google Books: A Practical Approach to the Science of Ayurveda

Avalambaka (अवलम्बक).—One of the five upadoṣas (sub-functions) of kapha (one of the three biological humors).—

Location of avalambaka: Chest.

Functions of avalambaka: Energizes limbs, lungs and heart.

Ailments of avalambaka due to vitiation: Lethargy.

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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.

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Journal of the University of Bombay Volume V: Apabhramsa metres (2)

Avalambaka (अवलम्बक) is the name of a catuṣpadi metre (as popularly employed by the Apabhraṃśa bards), as discussed in books such as the Chandonuśāsana, Kavidarpaṇa, Vṛttajātisamuccaya and Svayambhūchandas.—Avalambaka (different from the three Avalambakas mentioned by Hemacandra p.31b|20) has 9 mātrās in each of its four lines. Avalambaka is treated by Hemacandra and Virahāṅka as the Prakrit ones.

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Chandas (छन्दस्) refers to Sanskrit prosody and represents one of the six Vedangas (auxiliary disciplines belonging to the study of the Vedas). The science of prosody (chandas-shastra) focusses on the study of the poetic meters such as the commonly known twenty-six metres mentioned by Pingalas.

Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Wisdom Library: Brihat Samhita by Varahamihira

Avalambaka (अवलम्बक) refers to the “latitude of a place”, according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 2), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “We shall now proceed to give a brief description of (the qualifications of) a jyotiṣaka. [...] He must know the Earth’s revolution round the sun and its rotation round its axis; its shape, size and the like; the latitude of a place [i.e., avalambaka] and its complement; the nature of the hour circle; the cāra-dala-kāla [the difference between six hours and half a day], the times of the rising of the Zodiacal signs. He must also be able to calculate time from shadow and shadow from time and to convert longitude into right ascension and right ascension into longitude”.

Source: INSA Digital Repository: Determination of Ascensional Difference in the Lagnaprakarana

Avalambaka (अवलम्बक) refers to the “Rcosine (of the latitude)”, according to verse 18 of the Lagnaprakaraṇa (lit. “treatise for the computation of the ascendant), an astronomical work in eight chapters dealing with the determination of the ascendant (udayalagna or orient ecliptic point).—Accordingly, “The quotient obtained from dividing the product [of the Rsine] of the declination and the Rsine of the latitude by the Rcosine of the latitude (avalambaka) is the earth-sine. They (i.e. scholars) know [the result] from the radius multiplied earth-sine divided by the day-radius converted to an arc to be the ascensional difference”.

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Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

India history and geography

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical Glossary

Avalambaka.—(EI 30), probably, a rod from which loops are suspended for carrying bundles. Note: avalambaka is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Avalambaka (अवलम्बक).—A perpendicular,

-kam Name of a meter.

Derivable forms: avalambakaḥ (अवलम्बकः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Avalambaka (अवलम्बक).—(-avalambaka), m., and °ikā, f., see nagarāvalam- baka, °ikā.

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

1) Avalambaka (अवलम्बक):—[=ava-lambaka] [from ava-lamb] mfn. hanging down, [Hemādri’s Caturvarga-cintāmaṇi]

2) [v.s. ...] m. (in [geometry]) a perpendicular

3) [v.s. ...] n. Name of a metre.

[Sanskrit to German]

Avalambaka 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

Avalaṃbaka (ಅವಲಂಬಕ):—

1) [adjective] dependant.

2) [adjective] liable but not certain happen; contingent.

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Avalaṃbaka (ಅವಲಂಬಕ):—[noun] an event liable, but not certain, to occur; a contingent.

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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: Lambaka, Ava.

Starts with: Avalambakakapha.

Ends with: Nagaravalambaka.

Full-text: Kapha, Avalambakakapha, Shirshaka, Dvipadikhanda.

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