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Ayurveda (science of life)

Dietetics and Culinary Art (such as household cooking)

Source: Shodhganga: Dietetics and culinary art in ancient and medieval India

Kuvala (कुवल) refers to a type of fruit-bearing plant, according to the Yajurveda, and is commonly found in literature dealing with the topics of dietetics and culinary art, also known as Pākaśāstra or Pākakalā.—We can see the description of flowering and fruit bearing plants in Ṛgveda. But we come across the specific names of them only in the later Saṃhita and Brāhmaṇa literature. Badara, kuvala, karkandhu, the varieties of jujube, bilva and kharjūra can be seen referred to in Yajurveda.

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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)

Kuvala in India is the name of a plant defined with Ziziphus mauritiana in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Paliurus mairei H. Lév. (among others).

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

· Species Plantarum (1753)
· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788)
· The Gardeners Dictionary (1754)
· Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden (2192)
· FBI (1875)
· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (1909)

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

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kuvala (कुवल).—

1) The water-lily.

2) A pearl.

3) Water.

4) The belly of a serpent.

Derivable forms: kuvalam (कुवलम्).

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

Kuvala (कुवल).—mfn.

(-laḥ-lī-laṃ) 1. The jujube, the tree. 2. The fruit. n.

(-laṃ) 1. A water lily. 2. A pearl. E. ku the earth, and val to cover, affix ac see the next.

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

Kuvala (कुवल).—n. A water lily; see kuvaleśaya.

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

Kuvala (कुवल).—[neuter] the fruit of the jujube tree ([feminine] kuvalī); also = seq.

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

1) Kuvala (कुवल):—mf(ī). ([gana] gaurādi) the jujube tree (Zizyphus Jujuba), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) n. the fruit of that tree, [Kāṭhaka; Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra]

3) (= kuvalaya) the water-lily, [Kathāsaritsāgara liii, 88]

4) a pearl, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Kuvala (कुवल):—[(laḥ-lā-laṃ) a.] The jujube; its fruit. n. Water-lily; a pearl.

[Sanskrit to German]

Kuvala 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Kuvala (ಕುವಲ):—

1) [noun] the tree Ziziphus mauritiana ( = Z. jujuba) of Rhamnaceae family.

2) [noun] its plum; Indian plum.

3) [noun] any of dicotyledonous water plants, of Nymphaeales order, having large, flat, floating leaves and showy flowers in a wide range of colour.

4) [noun] a flower of such a plant.

5) [noun] a smooth, hard, usu. white or bluish-grey, abnormal nacreous growth of various, usu. roundish, shapes, formed around a grain of sand, a parasite or other foreign body within the shell of some oysters and certain other bivalve molluscs; a pearl.

6) [noun] water.

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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 (+32): Kuvalai, Kuvalaikanam, Kuvalaikkatukkan, Kuvalaimalaiyar, Kuvalaiyaccu, Kuvalaiyan, Kuvalakam, Kuvalakuna, Kuvalam, Kuvalamaram, Kuvalamayam, Kuvalap-pazham, Kuvalaprastha, Kuvalasaktu, Kuvalashva, Kuvalaya, Kuvalayabamdhu, Kuvalayacandra, Kuvalayadala, Kuvalayaditya.

Full-text (+1): Kuvaleshaya, Kuvali, Kulava, Kauvala, Kuva, Kuvalaya, Kuvalashva, Kuvalakuna, Kuvalasaktu, Kuvalaprastha, Kuvalam, Kvala, Badara, Gamaka, Karkandhu, Viravarma, Bilva, Kola, Kuvalai, Kharjura.

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Atharvaveda and Charaka Samhita (by Laxmi Maji)

Therapeutics and Rejuvenation Therapy < [Chapter 4 - Diseases and Remedial measures (described in Caraka-saṃhitā)]

Classification of Drugs in the Caraka-Saṃhitā < [Chapter 4 - Diseases and Remedial measures (described in Caraka-saṃhitā)]

Raktapitta according to Caraka < [Chapter 4 - Diseases and Remedial measures (described in Caraka-saṃhitā)]

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Satapatha-brahmana (by Julius Eggeling)

Kāṇḍa XII, adhyāya 7, brāhmaṇa 1 < [Twelfth Kāṇḍa]

Kāṇḍa V, adhyāya 5, brāhmaṇa 4 < [Fifth Kāṇḍa]

Kāṇḍa XII, adhyāya 9, brāhmaṇa 1 < [Twelfth Kāṇḍa]

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Amarakoshodghatana of Kshirasvamin (study) (by A. Yamuna Devi)

Flora (5): Trees < [Chapter 5 - Aspects of Nature]

Appendix III - Synonyms of Flora (Vanauṣadhi-varga)

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