Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Himarati in India is the name of a plant defined with Calotropis gigantea in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Periploca cochinchinensis Lour. (among others).

2) Himarati is also identified with Plumbago zeylanica It has the synonym Plumbago zeylanica var. glaucescens Boiss. (etc.).

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

· Taxon (1977)
· Species Plantarum (1762)
· Flora of Southern Africa (1963)
· Nepal Med. Coll. J. (2006)
· Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1895)
· A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants (1837)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Himarati, for example pregnancy safety, chemical composition, health benefits, extract dosage, diet and recipes, side effects, 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

Himārāti (हिमाराति).—

1) fire.

2) the sun.

3) the arka and chitraka plants.

Derivable forms: himārātiḥ (हिमारातिः).

Himārāti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms hima and arāti (अराति).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Himaratī (हिमरती).—(read °vatī ? but no such river-name is recorded), name of a river: Kāraṇḍavvūha 71.15.

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

Himārāti (हिमाराति).—m.

(-tiḥ) 1. Fire. 2. The sun. E. hima cold, arāti the enemy; also similar compounds, as himāri, &c.

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

1) Himārāti (हिमाराति):—[from hima > him] m. ‘enemy of cold’ fire, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] the sun, [ib.]

3) [v.s. ...] a kind of Plant (= citraka), [Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary]

4) [v.s. ...] another plant (= arka), [ib.]

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

Himārāti (हिमाराति):—[himā+rāti] (tiḥ) 2. m. Fire; sun.

[Sanskrit to German]

Himarati 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: Hima, Arati.

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