In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Ancient Science of Life: Vaidyavallabha: An Authoritative Work on Ayurveda Therapeutics

Jāsuda (जासुद) refers to Japā (Hibiscus rosa sinensis) and is the name of a medicinal plant dealt with in the 17th-century Vaidyavallabha written by Hastiruci.—The Vaidyavallabha is a work which deals with the treatment and useful for all 8 branches of Ayurveda. The text Vaidyavallabha has been designed based on the need of the period of the author, availability of drugs (viz., Jāsuda-kusuma) during that time, disease manifesting in that era, socio-economical-cultural-familial-spiritual-aspects of that period Vaidyavallabha.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

jāsūda (जासूद).—m ( A) A messenger, courier, runner. 2 fig. A piece of paper sent up along the string to a paper-kite, a messenger.

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

jāsūda (जासूद).—m A messenger, courier.jāsūda jōḍī f A couple of messengers. Two are usually despatched together.

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jāsuda (जासुद).—f The shoe-flower.

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Jāsūda (ಜಾಸೂದ):—[noun] a detective a) a man on a police force, whose work is investigating and trying to solve crimes; b) a man working privately to investigate crimes, gather information, etc.

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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)

Starts with: Jasudagiri, Jasudajodi, Jasudakusuma.

Ends with: Corajasuda, Pontjasuda.

Full-text: Jasuddara, Jasudagiri, Jasudu, Jasudi, Miradha, Japa, Phirata.

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