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Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Jīvadā (जीवदा) is another name for Jīvantī, a medicinal plant identified with Leptadenia reticulata (cork swallow-wort) from the Apocynaceae, or “dogbane family” of flowering plants, according to verse 3.37-39 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The third chapter (guḍūcyādi-varga) of this book contains climbers and creepers (vīrudh). Together with the names Jīvadā and Jīvantī, there are a total of eighteen 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.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

jivaḍā (जिवडा).—m (jīva) A creeping or crawling creature gen.: a reptile, serpent, or insect. 2 A term of endearment, agreeing with darling, life, jewel.

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

jivaḍā (जिवडा).—m A reptile, serpent or insect. A term of endearment, agreeing with darling, life, jewel.

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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

Jīvada (जीवद).—

1) a physician.

2) an enemy.

Derivable forms: jīvadaḥ (जीवदः).

Jīvada is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms jīva and da (द).

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

Jīvada (जीवद).—mfn.

(-daḥ-dā-daṃ) Life-giving, who or what gives life. m.

(-daḥ) 1. A physician, a practitioner of medicine. 2. An enemy. E. jīva life, and da in the first sense, from dā to give, in the second, from do to destroy, affix ka, jīvaṃ jīvanaṃ dadāti dyati vā .

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

1) Jīvada (जीवद):—[=jīva-da] [from jīva > jīv] 1. jīva-da m. ‘life-giver’, a physician, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) Jīvadā (जीवदा):—[=jīva-dā] [from jīva-da > jīva > jīv] f. = vantī, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) Jīvada (जीवद):—[=jīva-da] [from jīva > jīv] 2. jīva-da m. ‘life-cutter’, an enemy, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Jīvada (जीवद):—[jīva-da] (daḥ) 1. m. A physician; an enemy. a. Life-giving.

[Sanskrit to German]

Jivada 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: Jiva, Da, Ta.

Starts with: Jivadaman, Jivadana, Jivadane, Jivadanta, Jivadanu, Jivadara, Jivadarabhya, Jivadasavahinipati, Jivadasha, Jivadata, Jivadate, Jivadatri, Jivadatta, Jivadattaka, Jivadaya, Jivadayaka, Jivadayaprakarana, Jivadaye, Jivatarakan, Jivatashai.

Ends with: Jivajivada, Najivada, Pumjivada, Salajivada.

Full-text: Jivadayaka, Jivadaman, Civatam, Civetai, Jivaka, Jivanti, Da.

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No search results for Jivada, Jiva-da, Jīva-da, Jīva-dā, Jīvada, Jivaḍā, Jīvadā; (plurals include: Jivadas, das, dās, Jīvadas, Jivaḍās, Jīvadās) in any book or story.