Biology (plants and animals)

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

Madanagraka in India is the name of a plant defined with Paspalum scrobiculatum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Paspalum virgatum var. purpurascens (Elliott) Alph. Wood) (Latin scrobiculus ‘a little ditch’ (among others).

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

· A Classbook of Botany (1861)
· Kew Bulletin (1975)
· Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1900)
· Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew (1928)
· A Sketch of the Botany of SouthCarolina and Georgia (1816)
· Graminum Monographiae …

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

Madanāgraka (मदनाग्रक).—a species of grain (kodrava).

Derivable forms: madanāgrakaḥ (मदनाग्रकः).

Madanāgraka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms madana and agraka (अग्रक).

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

Madanāgraka (मदनाग्रक).—m.

(-kaḥ) A kind of grain.

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

Madanāgraka (मदनाग्रक):—[from madana > mad] m. Paspalum Scrobiculatum, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Madanagraka 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.

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Partial matches: Agraka, Madana.

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