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Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Durmarā (दुर्मरा) is another name for Śatāvarī, a medicinal plant identified with Asparagus racemosus Willed. (or “buttermilk root”) from the Asparagaceae family of flowering plants, according to verse 4.116-119 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 Durmarā and Śatāvarī, there are a total of thirty-two 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.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Durmara in India is the name of a plant defined with Asparagus racemosus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Asparagopsis floribunda Kunth, nom. illeg. (among others).

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

· Species Plantarum. (1799)
· Enum. Pl. (1850)
· Bombay Fl. (1861)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Nouv. Ann. Mus. Paris (1834)
· Tent. Fl. Abyss. (1850)

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

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Durmara (दुर्मर).—a hard or difficult death; Mahābhārata (Bombay) 14.61.9.

Derivable forms: durmaram (दुर्मरम्).

Durmara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms dur and mara (मर).

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Durmara (दुर्मर).—a sad demise; अकाले दुर्मरमहो यज्जीवामस्तया विना (akāle durmaramaho yajjīvāmastayā vinā) Bhaṭṭikāvya 6.14.

Derivable forms: durmaram (दुर्मरम्).

Durmara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms dus and mara (मर).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Durmara (दुर्मर).—mfn.

(-raḥ-rā-raṃ) Dying. with difficufy, retentive of life: f. (-r) Bent grass: see dūrvā. E. dur with difficulty, mṛ so perish, affix ac .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Durmara (दुर्मर).—[durmara, dus-mṛ + a], I. adj. Not easily dying, Mahābhārata 16, 153. Ii. n. A hard death, Mahābhārata 14, 2364.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Durmara (दुर्मर).—[adjective] dying with difficulty; [neuter] [impersonally]

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

1) Durmara (दुर्मर):—[=dur-mara] [from dur] mfn. dying hard, tenacious of life, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Mahābhārata]

2) [v.s. ...] n. a hard death (w. [instrumental case] of [person]), [Mahābhārata xiv, 2364]

3) Durmarā (दुर्मरा):—[=dur-marā] [from dur-mara > dur] f. a kind of Dūrvā grass or Asparagus Racemosus, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Durmara (दुर्मर):—[dur-mara] (raḥ-rā-raṃ) a. Dying hard. f. Bent grass.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Durmāra (दुर्मार) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Dummāra.

[Sanskrit to German]

Durmara 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.

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Partial matches: Dur, Mara, Dush.

Starts with: Durmarana, Durmaratva, Durmarayu, Turmaranam.

Full-text: Dummara, Tuttamana, Durmaratva, Adhvan, Shatavari, Mara.

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