The Sanskrit term Gajoṣaṇā can be transliterated into English as Gajosana or Gajoshana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Gajoṣaṇā (गजोषणा) is the Sanskrit name for a medicinal plant identified with Piper retrofractum Vahl. or “Balinese long pepper” from the Piperaceae or ‘pepper’ family of flowering plants, according to verse 6.14-15 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. Gajoṣaṇā is commonly known in Bengal and Assamese as Caī.

Gajoṣaṇā is mentioned as having nine synonyms: Cavyaphalā, Cavyajā, Gajapippalī, Śreyasī, Chidravaidehī, Dīrghagranthi, Taijasī, Vartulī and Sthūlavaidehī.

Properties and characteristics: “Gajapippalī [Gajoṣaṇā] is pungent, hot, dry and dries up the watery contents of the faeces (or may be termed as slightly constipative). It quells kapha, vāta and is galactogouge. it improves the skin complexion (varṇa-vivardhinī)”.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Gajoṣaṇā (गजोषणा).—f.

(-ṇā) A short of pepper: see gajapippalī. E. gaja, and uṣaṇā pepper.

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

Gajoṣaṇā (गजोषणा):—[from gaja > gaj] f. = ja-pippalī, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Gajoṣaṇā (गजोषणा):—[gajo+ṣaṇā] (ṇā) 1. f. Pepper.

[Sanskrit to German]

Gajoshana 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)

Full-text: Vartuli, Dirghagranthi, Cavyaphala, Gajapippali, Sthulavaidehi, Cavyaja, Chidravaidehi, Taijasi, Shreyasi, Cai.

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