The Sanskrit term Kṛṣṇāvāsa can be transliterated into English as Krsnavasa or Krishnavasa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Krsnavasa in India is the name of a plant defined with Justicia gendarussa in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Ecbolium gendarussa Kuntze (among others).

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

· Taxon (1980)
· FBI (1885)
· Catalogue des Plantes de Madagascar, Acanth. (1939)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Berichte der Schweizerischen Botanischen Gesellschaft (1976)
· Taxon (1982)

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

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kṛṣṇāvāsa (कृष्णावास).—the holy fig-tree.

Derivable forms: kṛṣṇāvāsaḥ (कृष्णावासः).

Kṛṣṇāvāsa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kṛṣṇa and āvāsa (आवास).

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

1) Kṛṣṇavāsa (कृष्णवास):—[=kṛṣṇa-vāsa] [from kṛṣṇa] mfn. wearing black clothes (said of Śiva), [Mahābhārata xiii, 14, 289.]

2) Kṛṣṇāvāsa (कृष्णावास):—[from kṛṣṇa] m. ‘abode of Kṛṣṇa’, Name of the holy fig-tree (Ficus religiosa), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Kṛṣṇāvāsa (कृष्णावास):—[kṛṣṇā+vāsa] (saḥ) 1. m. The holy fig tree.

[Sanskrit to German]

Krishnavasa 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: Krishna, Vasa, Vaca, Avasa.

Starts with: Krishnavasas.

Full-text: Krishnavasas, Vasa.

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