The Sanskrit term Bāṣpaka can be transliterated into English as Baspaka or Bashpaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Bashpaka in India is the name of a plant defined with Amaranthus blitum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Euxolus ascendens (Loisel. (among others).

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

· Watsonia (1961)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Flora Telluriana (1836)
· Kromosomo (Tokyo)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· La flore adventice de Montpellier (1912)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Bashpaka, for example health benefits, chemical composition, side effects, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, have a look at these references.

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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

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Bāṣpaka (बाष्पक).—A kind of vegetable (Mar. māṭha).

-kā also बाष्पिका (bāṣpikā)

1) Steam, vapour.

2) A kind of vegetable, हिंगुपत्री (hiṃgupatrī).

Derivable forms: bāṣpakaḥ (बाष्पकः).

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

1) Bāṣpaka (बाष्पक):—[from bāṣpa] (ifc. f(ā). ), steam, vapour, [Suśruta]

2) [v.s. ...] m. a kind of vegetable (= māriṣa), [Bhāvaprakāśa]

3) Bāṣpakā (बाष्पका):—[from bāṣpaka > bāṣpa] f. = hiṅgu-pattrī, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Bashpaka 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Bashpakala, Bashpakantha.

Ends with: Sabashpaka.

Full-text: Sabashpaka, Bashpika.

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