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Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Indīvarī (इन्दीवरी) is another name for Śatāvarī, a medicinal plant identified with Asparagus racemosus Willed. (or “buttermilk root”) from the Asparagaceae family of flowering plants, according to verse 4.116-119 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 Indīvarī and Śatāvarī, there are a total of thirty-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)

Indivari in India is the name of a plant defined with Asparagus racemosus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Asparagopsis abyssinica Kunth (among others).

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

· Tent. Fl. Abyss. (1850)
· Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany (1996)
· Species Plantarum. (1799)
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1875)
· Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany (1991)
· Enum. Pl. (1850)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Indivari, for example health benefits, chemical composition, pregnancy safety, side effects, extract dosage, diet and recipes, 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: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Indīvarī (इन्दीवरी):—[=indī-varī] [from indī-vara] f. the plant Asparagus Racemosus

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

Indīvarī (इन्दीवरी):—[indī-varī] (rī) 3. f. Asparagus.

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Iṃdīvari (ಇಂದೀವರಿ):—

1) [noun] the plat Phaseolus trilobus of Papilionaeae family; wild gram.

2) [noun] the plant Asparagus falcatus of Liliaceae family.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Indi, Vari.

Starts with: Indivarika, Indivarini.

Full-text: Uttamarani, Shatavari.

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The Garuda Purana (by Manmatha Nath Dutt)

Chapter CCXXVII - Different names of the Ayurvedic Drugs < [Dhanvantari Samhita]

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