Introduction

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Devadangara in the Kannada language is another name for Jīmūtaka, a medicinal plant identified with Luffa echinata (bitter sponge gourd or bitter luffa) from the Cucurbitaceae or “gourd family” of flowering plants, according to verse 3.58-60 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The third chapter (guḍūcyādi-varga) of this book contains climbers and creepers (vīrudh). Other than the Kannada word Devadangara, there are more synonyms identified for this plant among which nineteen are in Sanskrit.

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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.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

dēvaḍāṅgara (देवडांगर).—m A variety of the dark green pompion, the plant or the fruit. It is disting. from dudhyā or mugavā or mugā bhōpaḷā and from kāśīphaḷa, and, because it is round and flattish, is also called cākī.

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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.

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Full-text: Devadangari, Jimutaka.

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