Godhuma, Go-dhuma, Godhūma: 29 definitions
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In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Dietetics and Culinary Art (such as household cooking)
Godhūma (गोधूम) refers to “wheat” and is classified as a type of grain (dhānya) in the section on śūkadhānya (awned grains) in the Bhojanakutūhala (dravyaguṇāguṇa-kathana), and is commonly found in literature dealing with the topics of dietetics and culinary art, also known as Pākaśāstra or Pākakalā.—The author explains the characteristics and the properties of various food grains (dhānyas). [...] The section śūkadhānya includes the varieties and properties of rice (śāli), wheat (godhūma) and barley (yava).
Godhūma or “wheat” is mentioned as being beneficial (hita) to the body according to the same work. Here In the śūkadhānya (awned grains) group Godhūma (wheat) is mentioned as beneficial to the body (hita).
Godhūma or “wheat” is classified as a ‘light foodstuff’ as opposed to śālipiṣṭa (rice flour).—Heavy food should [viz., śālipiṣṭa] to be eaten only until one is half satisfied. Light food [viz., godhūma] can be eaten until the full satisfaction is obtained. A man whose digestive fire is weak, should abandon heavy food.
Godhūma or “wheat” is mentioned in a list of potential causes for indigestion.—A complete section in Bhojanakutūhala is devoted for the description of agents that cause indigestion [viz., godhūma (wheat)]. These agents consumed on a large scale can cause indigestion for certain people. The remedies [viz., karkaṭī (cucumber) or kitava (thorn apple)] for these types of indigestions are also explained therewith.
Kalpa (Formulas, Drug prescriptions and other Medicinal preparations)
Godhūma (गोधूम) or Godhūmādya-ghṛta refers to one of the topics discussed in the Madhumatī, a Sanskrit manuscript ascribed to Nṛsiṃha Kavirāja collected in volume 12 of the catalogue “Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (second series)” by Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri.—The Madhumatī manuscript, consisting of 5,586 ślokas (metrical verses), is housed in Dhaka with Babu Bhagavancandra Dasa Kaviraja. It seemingly addresses topics related to Medicinal, Herbal, and Iatrochemical preparations. The catalogue includes the term—Godhūma-ādya-ghṛta in its ‘subject-matter list’ or Viṣaya (which lists topics, chapters and technical terms). The complete entry reads—tatra godhūmādyaghṛtavidhānam.
Veterinary Medicine (The study and treatment of Animals)
Godhūma (गोधूम) refers to “wheat” (administered given to domesticated elephants), according to the 15th century Mātaṅgalīlā composed by Nīlakaṇṭha in 263 Sanskrit verses, dealing with elephantology in ancient India, focusing on the science of management and treatment of elephants.—[Cf. chapter 11, “On the keeping of elephants and their daily and seasonal regimen”]: “12. He shall always cause wheat (godhūma) and barley to be given, boiled and mixed with jaggery and butter, in the same way, accompanied by rice grits alone, or else mixed with cow’s urine, increasing that also by a kuḍuha each day in turn as above until it reaches an āḍhaka, flavored with cardamoms, the three spices (black and long pepper and dry ginger), asafoetida, cumin seed, yuga (an uncertain drug or medicinal plant), cumin seed (of another variety), and the fruit of Embelia ribes (a vermifuge)”.
Unclassified Ayurveda definitions
Godhūma (वेणुयव) is a Sanskrit word referring to “wheat”. It is a type of “awned grain” (śūkadhānya), according to Caraka in his Carakasaṃhitā sūtrasthāna (chapter 27), a classical Ayurvedic work. The literal translation of the word is “earth-smoke”, it is composed of go (‘earth’) and dhūma (‘smoke’). The plant Godhūma is part of the Śūkadhānyavarga group of medicinal plants, referring to the “group of awned grains”. Caraka defined such groups (vargas) based on the dietic value of the plant. Godhūma is union-promoting, vāta-alleviating, sweet, cold, vitalising, bulk-promoting, aphrodisiac, unctuous, stabiliser and heavy in character.
Godhūma (गोधूम) refers to “products made of wheat”, which is mentioned in verse 3.12 and 29.31 of the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Sūtrasthāna) by Vāgbhaṭa.—Accordingly, “[...] Having thereupon bathed according to ritual—with the oil removed by an astringent—,rubbed (one’s body) with musk-charged saffron, (and) fumigated (oneself) with aloe-wood one shall (at last) turn to rich, broths, fat meat, rum, barm, arrack, delicious products made of wheat [viz., godhūma], (rice-)flour, urd-beans, sugarcane, and milk, [...]”.
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.
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Godhūma (गोधूम) forms part of a common diet in ancient Kashmir (Kaśmīra) as mentioned in the Nīlamatapurāṇa.—Godhūma refers to food preparations of wheat are mentioned as offerings for the deities (verse 719). Most of the references to the articles of diet occur in the Nīlamata in connection with the offerings made to the gods but it is not difficult to infer from them the food and drink of the common people because “what a man eats his gods eat”.
1) Godhūma (गोधूम) refers to “wheat” which is used in the worship of Śiva, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.1.13:—“[...] then the Ācamana shall be offered and cloth dedicated. Gingelly seeds, barley grains, wheat (godhūma), green gram or black gram shall then be offered to Śiva with various mantras. Then flowers shall be offered to the five-faced noble soul. Lotuses, rose, Śaṅkha, and Kuśa flowers, Dhattūras, Mandāras grown in a wooden vessel, holy basil leaves or Bilva leaves shall be offered to each of the faces in accordance with the previous meditation or according to one’s wish. By all means Śiva favourably disposed to His devotees shall be worshipped with great devotion. If other flowers are not available, Bilva leaves shall be used exclusively in the worship of Śiva”.
2) Godhūma (गोधूम) refers to “wheat”, and is used in the worship of Śiva, according to in the Śivapurāṇa 2.1.14:—“Brahmins desiring the benefit shall perform the rite of Prājāpatya. The worship of Śiva with wheat grains (godhūma) is highly praiseworthy. If a hundred thousand grains are used for worship, the devotee shall be blessed with a number of children. Half a Droṇa of wheat will constitute a hundred thousand in number of grains. The mode of worship is as before”.
Godhūma (गोधूम).—Fit for śrāddha.*
- * Viṣṇu-purāṇa I. 6. 21, 24; II. 15. 30; VI. 1. 38; III. 16. 6.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Pancaratra (worship of Nārāyaṇa)
Godhūma (गोधूम) refers to “wheat” and represents one of the seven village-corns that are fit for food-offerings according to verse 25.57 of the Īśvarasaṃhitā, dealing with the classification of the places for building the fire-pits (kuṇḍa). Accordingly, “rice (śāli), green gram (mudga), barley (yava), black gram (māṣa), wheat (godhūma), priyaṅgu (panic seed) and seasamum (tila)—these seven grown in the village are to be taken in the work of preparation of caru”.
Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, pāñcarātra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.
Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)
Godhūma (गोधूम) refers to “wheat”, according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 15) (“On the nakṣatras—‘asterisms’”), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “Those who are born on the lunar day of Puṣya will be dealers in barley, wheat (godhūma), rice, sugar-canes and in the produce of the forest; will be either ministers or rulers; will live by water; will be Sādhus and will delight in sacrificial rites. Those who are born on the lunar day of Āśleṣā, will be dealers in perfumes, roots, fruits, reptiles, serpents and poison; will delight in cheating others of their property; will be dealers in pod grains and will be skilled in medicine of every sort. [...]”.
Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Godhūma (गोधूम, “wheat”) refers to one of the seventeen varieties of dhānya (“grain”) according to Śvetāmbara tradition and listed in Hemacandra’s 12th century Yogaśāstra (verse 3.95). Dhānya represents one of the classes of the external (bahya) division of attachment (parigraha) and is related to the Aparigraha-vrata (vow of non-attachment).
Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.
Biology (plants and animals)
Godhuma in the Sanskrit language is the name of a plant identified with Triticum aestivum from the Poaceae (Grass) family. For the possible medicinal usage of godhuma, you can check this page for potential sources and references, although be aware that any some or none of the side-effects may not be mentioned here, wether they be harmful or beneficial to health.
Godhuma in India is the name of a plant defined with Triticum aestivum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Zeia vulgaris var. aestiva (L.) Lunell (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· New Phytologist (2005)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Plant Breeding (2005)
· La flore adventice de Montpellier (1912)
· Florula Ludoviciana, or, a flora of the state of … (1817)
· Taxon (2000)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Godhuma, for example chemical composition, pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, side effects, health benefits, extract dosage, have a look at these references.
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Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
godhuma : (m.) wheat.
Godhūma, wheat (usually mentioned with yava, spelt) Miln.267; DA.I, 163; SnA 323. See dhañña. (Page 255)
1) godhuma (ဂေါဓုမ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[gudha+uma．,ṭī.45va．gudhati parivedhati palibundatīti godhūmo．sī,ṭī,,1.35va.]
[ဂုဓ+ဥမ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၄၅ဝ။ ဂုဓတိ ပရိဝေဓတိ ပလိဗုန္ဒတီတိ ဂေါဓူမော။ သီ၊ဋီ၊သစ်၊၁။၃၅ဝ။]
2) godhūma (ဂေါဓူမ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[gudha+uma．,ṭī.45va．gudhati parivedhati palibundatīti godhūmo．sī,ṭī,,1.35va.]
[ဂုဓ+ဥမ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၄၅ဝ။ ဂုဓတိ ပရိဝေဓတိ ပလိဗုန္ဒတီတိ ဂေါဓူမော။ သီ၊ဋီ၊သစ်၊၁။၃၅ဝ။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) godhuma—
(Burmese text): ဂျုံ။
(Auto-Translation): Barley.
2) godhūma—
(Burmese text): ဂျုံ။
(Auto-Translation): Barley.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Marathi-English dictionary
gōdhūma (गोधूम).—m (S) Wheat, Triticum.
gōdhūma (गोधूम).—m Wheat.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Godhuma (गोधुम) or Godhūma (गोधूम).—
1) wheat; Bṛ. Up.6.3.13.
2) the orange. °चूर्णम् (cūrṇam) wheat flour;
Derivable forms: godhumaḥ (गोधुमः), godhūmaḥ (गोधूमः).
Godhuma is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms go and dhuma (धुम).
Godhūma (गोधूम).—m.
(-maḥ) Wheat: see the next. E. gudh-vāº uma .
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Godhūma (गोधूम).—m.
(-maḥ) 1. Wheat. 2. The orange. 3. The name of a drug. E. gudh to surround, and ūma Unadi aff.
Godhūma (गोधूम).—[go-dhūma], m., usually pl., Wheat, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 5, 25.
Godhūma (गोधूम).—[masculine] wheat.
1) Godhuma (गोधुम):—[=go-dhuma] [from go] for -dhūma, wheat, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
2) Godhūma (गोधूम):—[=go-dhūma] [from go] a m. (√gudh, [Uṇādi-sūtra]) ‘earth-smoke’, wheat (generally [plural]), [Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā; Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa i; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa] v (sg.), [xii, xiv; Śāṅkhāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Manu-smṛti] etc.
3) [v.s. ...] the orange tree, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
4) [v.s. ...] Name of a medicinal plant, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
5) [=go-dhūma] b etc. See go, p. 365, col. 1.
1) Godhuma (गोधुम):—(maḥ) 1. m. Wheat.
2) Godhūma (गोधूम):—(maḥ) 1. m. Idem; an orange; the name of a drug.
Godhuma (गोधुम):—m. = godhūma Waizen [Śabdacandrikā im Śabdakalpadruma]
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Godhūma (गोधूम):—
1) m. [Die Uṇādi-Affixe 5, 2.] a) Waizen [Amarakoṣa 2, 9, 18.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 9, 4.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1174.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 464.] [Medinīkoṣa Manu’s Gesetzbuch 43.] ein nacktes Korn [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 5, 2, 1, 6.] gewöhnlich pl. [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 18, 12. 19, 22. 89. 21, 29.] na vā e.e vrī.ayo.na yavā.yadgo.hūmāḥ [Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa 1, 3, 7, 2.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 12, 7, 1. 2. 2, 9. 14, 9, 3, 22.] saktavaḥ [?12, 9. 1, 5. Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 14, 41, 7. 15, 1, 16. - Manu’s Gesetzbuch 5, 25, Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 169.] ye yavānnā janapadā godhūmānnāstathaiva ca [Mahābhārata 3, 13052. 13, 3183.] [Suśruta 1, 46, 14. 199, 3. 2, 506, 3.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 15, 6. 16, 7. 19, 6. 28, 4.] [40(39), 2. fgg.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 15, 8.] cūrṇa [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 402.] araṇyāni yavagodhūmavanti [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 22, 16.] — b) Orangenbaum. — c) eine best. Heilpflanze [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] —
2) f. ī Name einer Pflanze (s. golomikā) [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] — Zerlegt sich in go + dhūma und ist viell. durch Erdrauch zu übersetzen wegen des rauchartigen Aussehens des aufsteigenden Blüthenstaubes.
Godhuma (गोधुम):—m. = godhūma Waizen.
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Godhūma (गोधूम):——
1) m. — a) Waizen , gewöhnlich Pl. godhūmasaktavaḥ. Waizenkorn als best. Gewicht [Hemādri’s Caturvargacintāmaṇi 1,117,1.] — b) *Orangenbaum. — c) *eine best. Heilpflanze. —
2) *f. ī ein best. kleiner Strauch.
Godhūma (गोधूम) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Gohūma.
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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Gōdhūma (ಗೋಧೂಮ):—[noun] = ಗೋಧಿ [godhi]1.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Gudha, Go, Dhuma, Uma.
Starts with (+1): Godhumabhasma, Godhumabhasmadi, Godhumabhasmadidhupa, Godhumacurna, Godhumacurnapupa, Godhumadhanya, Godhumadhanya, Godhumadi, Godhumadi, Godhumadighrita, Godhumadiyoga, Godhumadya, Godhumadyaghrita, Godhumaghrita, Godhumaja, Godhumaka, Godhumakhetta, Godhumapishta, Godhumasambhava, Godhumasamcayamaya.
Full-text (+35): Godhumasambhava, Godhumacurna, Mahagodhuma, Laghugodhuma, Godhumasamcayamaya, Godhumaja, Shvetagodhuma, Godhumakhetta, Godhumavarna, Alpagodhuma, Godhumaka, Yavagodhumadi, Godhumaghrita, Godhumadya, Godhumi, Godhumadi, Godhumadhanya, Godhumabhasma, Gandhavihvala, Gohuma.
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