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Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Advances in Zoology and Botany: Ethnomedicinal List of Plants Treating Fever in Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra, India

Karavanda (or Karavaṃda) in the Marathi language refers to the medicinal shrub “Carissa carandas Linn. var.congesta (Wt.) Bedd.”, and is used for ethnomedicine treatment of Fever in Ahmednagar district, India. The parts used are: “Leaves”.

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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)

Karavanda in India is the name of a plant defined with Carissa carandas in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Damnacanthus esquirolii H. Lév. (among others).

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

· Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (1993)
· Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1912)
· Systema Naturae, ed. 12 (1767)
· Fl. Cochinch. (1790)
· Japanese J. Pharmacol. (1970)
· Cell and Chromosome Research (1986)

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

karavanda (करवंद) [or दी, dī].—f (karamardda S) Corinda tree, Carissa Carondas.

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karavanda (करवंद).—n The fruit of the Corinda. 2 (From the sharp sourness of the fruit.) Added enhancingly to gāra, as gāra gāra ka0 Intensely or bitterly cold--air, weather, liquors.

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

karavanda (करवंद).—f Corinda-tree or 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Karavaṃda (ಕರವಂದ):—[noun] (obs.) a kind of tax.

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Karavaṃda (ಕರವಂದ):—[noun] = ಕರಮರ್ದ [karamarda].

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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: Karavandanem.

Full-text: Avigna, Karavandanem, Varivara, Karamarda, Karamalaka, Krishnapaka, Karamardi, Karamardaka, Phalapaka, Madhu, Gara, Karaṇda.

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