Biology (plants and animals)

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

Bhukanda in India is the name of a plant defined with Sphaeranthus indicus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Sphaeranthus mollis Roxb. (among others).

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

· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1993)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1989)
· Nat. Hist. (1877)
· Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1998)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (DC.) (1836)

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

context information

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

bhukandā (भुकंदा) [or भुकांदा, bhukāndā].—m (Commonly bukāndā) A blow with the soft end of the fist.

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

bhukandā (भुकंदा) [or bhukāndā, or भुकांदा].—m A blow with the soft end of the fist.

context information

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

1) Bhūkanda (भूकन्द):—[=bhū-kanda] m. a [particular] medicinal plant, [Vāgbhaṭālaṃkāra]

2) Bhūkāṇḍa (भूकाण्ड):—[=bhū-kāṇḍa] m. ‘earth-chapter’, Name of a [chapter] of the Bhūri-prayoga.

[Sanskrit to German]

Bhukanda in German

context information

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)

Partial matches: Bhu, Kanda.

Starts with: Bhukamdaya.

Relevant text

No search results for Bhukanda, Bhu-kanda, Bhū-kanda, Bhū-kāṇḍa, Bhukandā, Bhūkanda, Bhūkāṇḍa; (plurals include: Bhukandas, kandas, kāṇḍas, Bhukandās, Bhūkandas, Bhūkāṇḍas) in any book or story.