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Source: Wisdom Library: Āyurveda and botany

Eḍagaja (एडगज) is another name for Cakramarda (Cassia tora “sickle senna”) according to the Bhāvaprakāśa, which is a 16^th century medicinal thesaurus authored by Bhāvamiśra. The term is used throughout Ayurvedic literature.

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Eḍagaja (एडगज) is another name for Cakramarda, a medicinal plant identified with Cassia tora Linn., synonym of Senna tora or “sickle senna” from the Fabaceae or “legume” family of flowering plants, according to verse 4.198-200 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 Eḍagaja and Cakramarda, there are a total of nineteen 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.

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Eḍagaja (एडगज).—the medicinal plant Cassia Tora or Alata (uraṇa) used for curing ringworms (Mar. ṭākaḷā).

Derivable forms: eḍagajaḥ (एडगजः).

Eḍagaja is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms eḍa and gaja (गज).

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

Eḍagaja (एडगज).—m.

(-jaḥ) A medicinal plant, used for the cure of ring-worms, (Cassia tora.) E. eḍa a sheep, gaja to sound, ac aff.

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

Eḍagaja (एडगज):—[=eḍa-gaja] [from eḍa] m. the plant Cassia Tora or Alata (used for the cure of ringworm), [Caraka]

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

Eḍagaja (एडगज):—[eḍa-gaja] (jaḥ) 1. m. A medicinal plant for ringworms, (Cassia tora.)

[Sanskrit to German] (Deutsch Wörterbuch)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Eḍagaja (एडगज):—m. Name einer Arzeneipflanze, Cassia Tora oder alata, [Amarakoṣa 2, 4, 5, 12.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1158.] — Zerlegt sich lautlich in eḍa + gaja; ein anderer Name derselben ist uraṇākṣa (uraṇa = eḍa) .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

Eḍagaja (एडगज):—m. Cassia Tora oder alata [Carakasaṃhitā 6,7.]

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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: Gaja, Eda.

Full-text: Edikakshi, Elagala, Cakramarda, Prapunnada.

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