Biology (plants and animals)

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

Lekhyapatraka in India is the name of a plant defined with Betula utilis in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Betula utilis var. typica Regel, nom. inval. (among others).

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

· Plantae Wilsonianae (1916)
· Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou (1865)
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1899)
· Plantae Asiaticae Rariores, or ‘Descriptions and figures of a select number of unpublished East Indian plants’ (1830)
· Prodromus Florae Nepalensis (1825)

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

Lekhyapatraka (लेख्यपत्रक).—

1) a writing, letter, document.

2) a palm-leaf.

Derivable forms: lekhyapatrakam (लेख्यपत्रकम्).

Lekhyapatraka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms lekhya and patraka (पत्रक). See also (synonyms): lekhyapatra.

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

Lekhyapatraka (लेख्यपत्रक).—m.

(-kaḥ) The palm tree. n.

(-kaṃ) A leaf of the palm or any other substance used for writing on. E. lekhya writing, patra a leaf, kan aff.; books in south of India, &c., being made of the leaves of the palmyra.

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

Lekhyapatraka (लेख्यपत्रक):—[lekhya-patraka] (kaḥ) 1. m. A palm tree. n. Leaf of the palm tree, &c.

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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: Lekhya, Patraka.

Full-text: Lekhyapatra.

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