Biology (plants and animals)

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

Madanaka in India is the name of a plant defined with Artemisia sieversiana in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Absinthium sieversianum (Ehrhart) Besser (among others).

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

· Species Plantarum. (1845)
· Grassland of China (1989)
· The Gardeners Dictionary (1754)
· Botaničeskij Žurnal (1990)
· Botanical Magazine (1909)
· Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1994)

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

Madanaka (मदनक).—Name of a plant (damanaka).

-kam bee-wax.

Derivable forms: madanakaḥ (मदनकः).

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

1) Madanaka (मदनक):—[from mad] m. Artemisia Indica, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] ([probably] [wrong reading] for damanaka)

2) [v.s. ...] the thorn-apple, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) [v.s. ...] n. bees-wax, [Bhāvaprakāśa]

4) Mādānaka (मादानक):—n. a species of wood, [Kauśika-sūtra] ([wrong reading] for mādanaka?).

[Sanskrit to German]

Madanaka 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)

Starts with: Madanakadana, Madanakai, Madanakaihalage, Madanakakurava, Madanakala, Madanakalaha, Madanakale, Madanakameshvara, Madanakameshvari, Madanakameshvarihu, Madanakameshvarihuvu, Madanakameshvarileha, Madanakamesvari, Madanakameswari, Madanakantaka, Madanakay, Madanakaya.

Full-text: Madanika.

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Search found 3 books and stories containing Madanaka, Mādānaka; (plurals include: Madanakas, Mādānakas). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

The Garuda Purana (by Manmatha Nath Dutt)

Chapter CXXIX - The Pratipad Vratas < [Brihaspati (Nitisara) Samhita]

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Brihat Samhita (by N. Chidambaram Iyer)

Chapter 77 - Preparation of Perfumes (gandhayukti)

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Lalitopakhyana (Lalita Mahatmya) (by G.V. Tagare)

Chapter 25 - Flight of Viṣaṅga

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