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Source: Research Gate: On Fish in Manasollasa (c. 1131 AD)

Gojjala (गोज्जल) refers to a type of fish identified with Ompok bimaculatus Bl., as mentioned in the 12th-century Mānasollāsa or Abhilaṣitārthachintāmaṇi, an ancient Sanskrit text describing thirty-five kinds of marine and fresh water fishes.—Gojjala is an inland, scaly, and small fish. In Sanskrit gochara means within the range, such as hearing or visible. The word gochi means a plant with sharp leaves. Hora (1951) suggested a different interpretation; jala means water and goj means shallow. On this basis, Hora identified the fish as Ophiocephalus punctatus Bl. We find that another fish, which fits in with the features mentioned above and which is an excellent food, is Ompok bimaculatus Bl. It is a catfish. In Kannada, it is known as godla, which is phonetically close to gojjala.

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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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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Gojjala (ಗೊಜ್ಜಲ):—[noun] = ಗೊಜ್ಜಿ [gojji] (?).

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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