Ambiguity: Although Chanchala has separate glossary definitions below, it also represents an alternative spelling of the word Cancala. It further has the optional forms Chañchalā and Chañchala.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Chanchala in India is the name of a plant defined with Codariocalyx motorius in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Desmodium gyrans var. roylei (Wight & Arn.) Baker (among others).

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

· Journal de Botanique, Appliquée à l’Agriculture, à la Pharmacie, à la Médecine et aux Arts (1813)
· Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis (1834)
· Flora (1842)
· Journal of the Arnold Arboretum (1938)
· Enumeratio Methodica Plantarum (1759)
· Natuurlijke Historie (1779)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Chanchala, for example health benefits, diet and recipes, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, chemical composition, side effects, 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

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Chanchala in Hindi refers in English to:—(nf) an epithet of Lakshmi: (the goddess of wealth); lightning; (a) unsteady, fickle; transient..—chanchala (चंचला) is alternatively transliterated as Caṃcalā.

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See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Chanchalagati, Chanchalahridaya, Chanchalakshi, Chanchalata, Chanchalatailaka, Chanchalatva.

Ends with: Chandrachanchala, Kapichanchala, Sthanachanchala.

Full-text: Cancala.

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