Kvatha, Kvātha, Kwatha: 21 definitions
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Kvatha means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, the history of ancient India, Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Rasashastra (Alchemy and Herbo-Mineral preparations)
Kvātha or Kaṣāya is the filtered liquid obtained by boiling coarse powder of drug(s) in proportion of 4, 8 or 16 (Mṛdu-dravya - 4, Madhyama-dravya - 8 and Kaṭhina-dravya - 16 respectively) times of water and reduced to one-fourth. (see the Śārṅgadhara-saṃhitā II.9.3, which is a 14th century medicinal Ayurvedic treatise in Sanskrit written by Śārṅgadhara).
Kalpa (Formulas, Drug prescriptions and other Medicinal preparations)
Kvātha (क्वाथ, “decoction”) is another name for Kaṣāya, a Sanskrit technical term appearing in the 15th-century Yogasārasaṅgraha (Yogasara-saṅgraha) by Vāsudeva..—At first medicinal plants are dried in shade, cut into pieces or pounded, if necessary. According to the hardness of the drugs, four, eight or sixteen times of water is added and then boiled till about one fourth remains. It is then filtered through a cloth and the filtrate is used as medicine.
Unclassified Ayurveda definitions
Kvatha is prepared by boiling the herb (about 60gms or 1 pala) in 16 parts of water in an earthen pot over a mild fire till it is reduced to 1/8 of the original amount. About 120g of decoction can be administered at a time, slightly warmed, after the food has digested. For example, Guducyadi-kvatha.
Kvatha (Decoction): Kvatha is prepared by boiling 1 part of herb with 16 parts of water in an open vessel on mild fire till it reduces to one-eighth of the original quantity. The quantity of water may be four times, eight times or sixteen times the quantity of the part of the plant. This variation in the amount of water depends on the hardness of the material used. Like, it may be simply four times in soft herbs (herbs whose leaves and flowers are used), eight times for medium hardness (includes soft barks of plants, roots of shrubs and plants, soft roots, tubers and medium tubers), while sixteen times in case where the plant material to be used for preparing decoction is too hard (Hard barks of trees, root bark of trees and creeper).
Kvātha (Decoction): Herbs are boiled in water without a lid till three-fourths or more water is evaporated. The filtrate is known as kvātha. This process is useful to extract medicinal qualities of herbs with hard consistency. The herbs containing volatile oils are not used to make kvāthas. These forms of medicines are easy to digest and effective in action. Example: Daśamūlāriṣṭa. Kvathas are usually taken orally. They are also used for tub-bath (avagāhana) as external use. Kvāthacūrna means certain drugs or combination of drugs are made into coarse powder and used to prepare kaṣāya.
Kvātha (क्वाथ):—Synonym of kashaya boiled & filtered liquid of herbs for specific time used for the therapeutics & pharmaceutical manufacturing
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.
India history and geography
Kvatha-bahal (in Sanskrit: Racheśvarī) refers to one of the various Bahals (“monasteries” = Vihāras) found in Patan, situated in the Nepal Mandala (lit. “circle or country of Nepal”), the ancient name for the Kathmandu Valley. A Bahal is a type of ‘enclosed courtyard’ or ‘sacred monastery’ constructed according to traditional Newari Architecture and hence found primarily in Nepal amongst Newar communities. These buildings play a big role in maintaining the norms of their society and lifestyle. There is a common list of eighteen major such Temples (bahals) found in Patan. For example Kvatha-bahal (lower) or Pulchok-bahil, which is also known by its Sanskrit name Racheśvarī.
Kwatha-baha (in Sanskrit: Kotta-vihāra) is the name of a Bāhā (i.e., a sacred courtyard in the Newari community where Buddhist priests reside) situated in Patan.—The valley of Kathmandu is known as “Nepal Mandala”, encircling the three cities of Kathmandu (northwest), Patan (Lalitpur) (south) and Bhaktapur (east). The Vihāras, Bāhās and Bahīs were, and still are, the centre for Buddhist activities and also dwelling place of the monks or monastics. For example, the Kwatha-baha, which is known in Sanskrit as Kotta-vihāra. These monstaries, courtyards and other buildings possess a central place in Buddhism and were mostly situated within the vicinity of these three cities.
Kvātha-baha can also refer to the Kūṭasiṃha-vihāra.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
kvātha (क्वाथ).—m S A decoction: also a thing boiled.
kvātha (क्वाथ).—m A decoction, a thing boiled.
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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
Kvatha (क्वथ).—A decoction, solution prepared with a continued or gentle heat.
Derivable forms: kvathaḥ (क्वथः).
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Kvātha (क्वाथ).—[kvath-karaṇe ghañ]
1) A decoction, solution prepared with a continued or gentle heat.
2) The mixture of the materials for decoction.
3) Pain, sorrow, distress.
Derivable forms: kvāthaḥ (क्वाथः).
Kvātha (क्वाथ).—(m.; in this meaning Sanskrit Lex.), misery, sorrow: asmābhir anena kvātha-kāyena prāptavyaṃ prāptaṃ (so punctuate) Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.5.17, by this body of misery we have got all we could get.
Kvātha (क्वाथ).—m.
(-thaḥ) 1. A decoction, any solution or infusion prepared with a continued and gentle heat. 2. Pain, sorrow. 3. Calamity, distress. 4. The mixture of the materials for a decoction. E. kvatha to decoct, ghañ aff.
Kvātha (क्वाथ).—i. e. kvath + a, m. A decoction, [Suśruta] 2, 85, 10.
Kvatha (क्वथ).—[masculine] decoction, extract.
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Kvātha (क्वाथ).—[masculine] boiling, decoction.
1) Kvatha (क्वथ):—[from kvath] m. ([gana] jvalādi) a decoction, extract.
2) Kvātha (क्वाथ):—[from kvath] a m. ([gana] jvalādi) boiling, [Yājñavalkya iii, 253 [Scholiast or Commentator]]
3) [v.s. ...] a decoction, any solution or infusion prepared with a continued or gentle heat, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā vli, 49; Suśruta; Śārṅgadhara-saṃhitā]
4) [v.s. ...] the mixture of the materials for a decoction, [Horace H. Wilson]
5) [v.s. ...] pain, sorrow, distress, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
6) b etc. See √kvath.
Kvātha (क्वाथ):—(thaḥ) 1. m. A decoction; pain.
Kvatha (क्वथ):—(von kvath) m. gaṇa jvalādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 1, 140.] Decoct, Extract: sudhādhārakvathastava [Böhtlingk’s Verzeichniss No. 50.] — Vgl. kvātha .
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Kvātha (क्वाथ):—(von kvath) m. gaṇa jvalādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 1, 140.]
1) Decoct, Infuso-Decoct [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 212. fg.] [Medinīkoṣa th. 4.] khadirakvātha [Suśruta 2, 85, 10. 94, 1.] yavakvātha [43, 3. 390, 9. 1, 46, 19. 146, 18. 159, 7. 15. 371, 3. 2, 342, 5.] guḍa ikṣurasakvāthaḥ [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 402.] kvātharasa [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 31, 238.] —
2) Schmerz, Leid, Ungemach; = duḥkha und vyasana [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] = atiduḥkha [Medinīkoṣa]
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Kvātha (क्वाथ):—
1) [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 46, 49.] [Śārṅgadhara SAṂH. 2, 2, 1.] das Kochen [Mitākṣarā] [?III,57,b,3.]
Kvatha (क्वथ):—m. Decoct , Extract.
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Kvātha (क्वाथ):—m. —
1) das Kochen. —
2) Decoct , Infuso-Decoct. —
3) *Schmerz , Leid , Ungemach.
Kvātha (क्वाथ) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Kāḍha.
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
Kvātha (ಕ್ವಾಥ):—[noun] an extract or the essence, flavour, etc. produced of by boiling; a decoction.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Starts with (+0): Kvatha-bahal, Kvatha-bahal, Kvathadhikara, Kvathadi, Kvathadiyoga, Kvathan, Kvathana, Kvathanabimdu, Kvathanamapaka, Kvathanamapana, Kvathananka, Kvathanda, Kvathanda, Kvatharasa, Kvathayati, Kvathayitavya, Kvathayitva, Kvathodbhava.
Full-text (+53): Kvathodbhava, Nishkvatha, Ikshurasakvatha, Avakvatha, Utkvatha, Kvatha-bahal, Prakvatha, Kvathadhikara, Kvatharasa, Manjishthadikvatha, Pathyashadangakvatha, Amritadikvatha, Pushkaradikvatha, Punarnavashtakakvatha, Dashamulakvatha, Dhanyapancakakvatha, Vatsakadikvatha, Rasnasaptakakvatha, Darvyadikvatha, Pancanimbakvatha.
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