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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Avandhya (अवन्ध्य).—The son of Aṅgirasa.^*

• * Vāyu-purāṇa 65. 100.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: Wisdom Library: Raj Nighantu

Avandhya (अवन्ध्य) refers to “fruit-bearing trees”, as mentioned in a list of six synonyms in the second chapter (dharaṇyādi-varga) of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu (an Ayurvedic encyclopedia). The Dharaṇyādi-varga covers the lands, soil, mountains, jungles and vegetation’s relations between trees [viz., Avandhya] and plants and substances, with their various kinds.

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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

Avandhya in the Assamese language is the name of a plant identified with Momordica dioica Momordica dioica Roxb. ex Willd. from the Cucurbitaceae (Pumpkin) family. For the possible medicinal usage of avandhya, 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

avandhya (अवंध्य).—a S (a & vandhya Barren.) Profitable, productive, availing, not barren. Ex. divasa a0 karāvā vandhya jāūṃ dēūṃ nayē.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

avandhya (अवंध्य).—a Productive, not barren.

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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

Avandhya (अवन्ध्य).—a. Not barren, fruitful, productive; अवन्ध्यवाञ्छितफलप्रदान (avandhyavāñchitaphalapradāna) K.26; अवन्ध्यपातेन बाणेन (avandhyapātena bāṇena) V.2.2; अवन्ध्यं दिवसं कुर्याद्दानाध्ययनकर्मसु (avandhyaṃ divasaṃ kuryāddānādhyayanakarmasu) H.2.1.

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

Avandhya (अवन्ध्य).—[adjective] not fruitless or vain; successful, happy. pāta unerring (of an arrow, lit. whose flight is not vain).

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

1) Avandhya (अवन्ध्य):—[=a-vandhya] mf(ā)n. = a-bandhya2 q.v.

2) [v.s. ...] Name of a place.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Avandhya (अवन्ध्य) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Avaṃjha.

[Sanskrit to German]

Avandhya 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

Avaṃdhya (ಅವಂಧ್ಯ):—[adjective] not barren; fruitful; productive; capable of bearing offsprings.

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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: Vandhya, A.

Starts with: Avandhyakala, Avandhyarupa.

Ends with: Kakavandhya, Kayavandhya, Mahavandhya, Mritavandhya, Phalavandhya, Priyopabhogavandhya.

Full-text: Avamjha, Avandhyakala, Akshuna, Avadhya, Vanjha, Avindhya.

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