The Sanskrit terms Dīrghaśākhikā and Dīrghaśākhika can be transliterated into English as Dirghasakhika or Dirghashakhika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Dīrghaśākhikā (दीर्घशाखिका) is another name for Nīlāmlī, a medicinal plant, possibly identified with Tamarindus indica Linn. or “Tamarind” from the Fabaceae or “legume” family of flowering plants, according to verse 4.176 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The fourth chapter (śatāhvādi-varga) of this book enumerates eighty varieties of small plants (pṛthu-kṣupa). Together with the names Dīrghaśākhikā and Nīlāmlī, there are a total of four Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.

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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.

India history and geography

Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-chedi era

Dīrghaśākhika (दीर्घशाखिक) is the name of a locality identified with Dighī, about six miles south-east of Kārītalāi, as mentioned in the Kārītalāi stone inscription of Lakṣmanarāja II.—Accordingly, “[...] May this ... of this (temple), the top of which supports the egg of Brahman, and which is the peg that renders the earth immovable, last as long as the world ! (And) may the world endure as long as this temple of (Viṣṇu), the enemy of Mura, will shine ... Such is (our) wish ! The king made eight Brahmanas, resembling (as many) Vasus, settle in this city (and) gave them a village named Dirghasakhika”.

These stone slabs (mentioning Dīrghaśākhika) were discovered at Kārītalāi, a village in the Murwārā tahsil of the Jabalpur District in Madhya Pradesh. They mention three Kalachuri princes, Yuvarājadeva, Lakṣmanarāja and Śankaragana [Śaṅkaragaṇa?].

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Dīrghaśākhikā (दीर्घशाखिका):—[=dīrgha-śākhikā] [from dīrgha-śākha > dīrgha] f. a kind of shrub, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Dirghashakhika 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)

Partial matches: Sakhika, Dirgha.

Full-text: Nilamli, Chakrahradi, Cakrahradi, Brahmanapuri.

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