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Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Hayapriyā (हयप्रिया) is another name for Aśvagandhā, a medicinal plant identified with Withania somnifera Dunal. (“Indian ginseng” or “Winter Cherry”) from the Solanaceae or Nightshade family of flowering plants, according to verse 4.109-112 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 Hayapriyā and Aśvagandhā, there are a total of twenty-two 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.

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Hayapriya in India is the name of a plant defined with Hordeum vulgare in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Zeocriton distichum P. Beauv. (among others).

2) Hayapriya is also identified with Withania somnifera It has the synonym Physaloides somnifera Moench (etc.).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae (1978)
· De la Belladone (1825)
· Kew Bulletin (1937)
· Essai d’une Nouvelle Agrostographie
· Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. (1927)
· A Botanical Materia Medica (1812)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Hayapriya, for example diet and recipes, health benefits, pregnancy safety, side effects, extract dosage, chemical composition, have a look at these references.

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Hayapriya (हयप्रिय).—barley.

Derivable forms: hayapriyaḥ (हयप्रियः).

Hayapriya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms haya and priya (प्रिय).

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Hayapriyā (हयप्रिया).—the Kharjuri tree.

Hayapriyā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms haya and priyā (प्रिया).

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

Hayapriya (हयप्रिय).—m.

(-yaḥ) Barley. f.

(-yā) The Kharjuri tree. E. haya a horse, priya fond of.

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

Hayapriya (हयप्रिय).—m. barley.

Hayapriya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms haya and priya (प्रिय).

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

1) Hayapriya (हयप्रिय):—[=haya-priya] [from haya] m. ‘dear to h°’, barley, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) Hayapriyā (हयप्रिया):—[=haya-priyā] [from haya-priya > haya] f. Physalis Flexuosa or Phoenix Sylvestris, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Hayapriya (हयप्रिय):—[haya-priya] (yaḥ) 1. m. Barley.

[Sanskrit to German]

Hayapriya 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)

Partial matches: Priya, Haya.

Ends with: Vishayapriya.

Full-text: Ashvagandha.

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