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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Jambulā (जम्बुला).—A river of the Bhāratavarṣa.^*

• * Vāyu-purāṇa 45. 100.

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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.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Jambula in India is the name of a plant defined with Pandanus tectorius in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Pandanus complanatus H. St. John (among others).

2) Jambula is also identified with Syzygium cumini It has the synonym Jambolifera coromandelica Houtt. (etc.).

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

· Supplementum Plantarum (1781)
· Encycl. (Lamarck) (1789)
· Acta Bot. Yunnan. (1982)
· Fieldiana, Botany (1958)
· Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden (1911)
· Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress Association (1990)

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

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

jāmbūḷa (जांबूळ).—f (jambūla S) A fruit tree, Calyptranthes caryophyllifolia or jambolana. 2 n The fruit of it.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

jāmbūḷa (जांबूळ).—f A fruit tree. n Its fruit.

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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

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Jambula (जम्बुल).—[jambuṃ tannāmaphalaṃ lāti lā-ka]

1) A kind of tree (= jamba q. v.).

2) The Ketaka plant.

-lam Jest or jesting compliments addressed to the bride and the bridegroom by the friends and female relatives of the bridegroom (or of the bride).

Derivable forms: jambulaḥ (जम्बुलः).

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

Jambūla (जम्बूल).—m.

(-laḥ) 1. A fragrant plant, (Pandanus odoratissimus.) 2. The rose apple. n.

(-laṃ) Jokes addressed to the bridegroom by his female relatives and friends. E. jambū as above, and la what gets or is.

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

Jambūla (जम्बूल).—m. A fragrant plant, Pandanus odoratissimus, [Harivaṃśa, (ed. Calc.)] 5371.

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

1) Jambula (जम्बुल):—m. a kind of disease of the outer ear, [Suśruta i, 16, 25 and 35]

2) = bu, Eugenia Jambolana, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) Pandanus odoratissimus, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

4) Jambūla (जम्बूल):—[from jambula] m. Pandanus odoratissimus, [Harivaṃśa 5371]

5) [v.s. ...] Eugenia Jambolana, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

6) [v.s. ...] n. ‘jests addressed to the bridegroom by his female relatives’, See -mālikā.

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

Jambūla (जम्बूल):—(laḥ) 1. m. A plant (Pandanus odoratissimus); the rose-apple. n. Jokes or compliments to the bridegroom by female friends.

[Sanskrit to German]

Jambula 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)

Starts with: Jambulaka, Jambulamalika, Jambulan, Jambulana, Jambulaya.

Ends with: Bhatajambula, Rajjambula, Thorajambula.

Full-text: Jambulamalika, Jambala, Jambhala, Jambhali, Jambali, Jambulika.

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