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Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Wisdom Library: Āyurveda and botany

Garaghna (गरघ्न) is another name for Tulasī, which is a Sanskrit word referring to Ocimum tenuiflorum (holy basil), from the Lamiaceae family. It is classified as a medicinal plant in the system of Āyurveda (science of Indian medicine) and is used throughout literature such as the Suśrutasaṃhita and the Carakasaṃhitā. The synonym was identified in the Rājanighaṇṭu (verses 10.148-149), which is a 13^th century medicinal thesaurus.

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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

Garaghna (गरघ्न).—a.

1) destroying poison.

2) healthy.

Garaghna is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms gara and ghna (घ्न).

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

Garaghna (गरघ्न).—mfn.

(-ghnaḥ-ghnī-ghnaṃ) 1. Antidotic, an antidote. 2. Sanative, healthy. m.

(-ghnaḥ) A species of Basil. f. (-ghnī) A fish (the young of the Ophiocephalus lata, Ham.) E. gara, and ghna what destroys.

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

1) Garaghna (गरघ्न):—[=gara-ghna] [from gara] mfn. removing poison or the disease called Gara, [Suśruta i, 45, 11, 11]

2) [v.s. ...] sanative, [Horace H. Wilson]

3) [v.s. ...] m. = -han, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

4) [v.s. ...] another variety of Ocimum, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Garaghna (गरघ्न):—[gara-ghna] (ghnaḥ-ghnī-ghnaṃ) a. Antidotic; sanative. m. Basil. f. (ghnī) A fish.

[Sanskrit to German]

Garaghna 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: Gara, Ghna.

Full-text: Garaghni, Garahan, Tulasi, Ghna.

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