Damaruyantra, Damaru-yantra, Ḍamaruyantra: 7 definitions
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In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Rasashastra (Alchemy and Herbo-Mineral preparations)
Source: Academia.edu: Ayurveda and Pharmaceutics (rasashastra)Ḍamaruyantra resembles dumbbell because two pots are joined at their mouths. This apparatus is used like a sublimation instrument.
Source: CCRAS: Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia of India, Appendix IḌamarūyantra (डमरूयन्त्र) is a contravenes of shape resembling Ḍamarū for sublimation prepared by sealing two pots with their mouths one telescoping the other sealing joint securely. (see the Rasataraṅgiṇī 4.41, which is a 16th-century alchemical century treatise on Rasaśāstra by Bhānudatta).
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryḍamaruyantra (डमरुयंत्र).—n (S) A chemical apparatus consisting of one globular vessel with a narrow neck placed inverted over the mouth of another such vessel, a cucurbite.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishḍamaruyantra (डमरुयंत्र).—n A kind of chemical apparatus.
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 dictionaryḌamaruyantra (डमरुयन्त्र).—a kind of pan; Bhāva. P.
Derivable forms: ḍamaruyantram (डमरुयन्त्रम्).
Ḍamaruyantra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms ḍamaru and yantra (यन्त्र).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryḌamaruyantra (डमरुयन्त्र):—[=ḍamaru-yantra] [from ḍamaru > ḍamara] n. a kind of pan, [Bhāvaprakāśa]
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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.
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