The Sanskrit term Mālyapuṣpa can be transliterated into English as Malyapuspa or Malyapushpa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Mālyapuṣpa (माल्यपुष्प) is another name for Śaṇa,  a medicinal plant identified with Crotalaria juncea Linn. (“Indian hemp”) from the Fabaceae or “legume” family of flowering plants, according to verse 4.75-76 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The fourth chapter (śatāhvādi-varga) of this book enumerates eighty varieties of small plants (pṛthu-kṣupa). Together with the names Mālyapuṣpa and Śaṇa, there are a total of eight Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.

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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)

Malyapushpa in India is the name of a plant defined with Crotalaria juncea in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Crotalaria porrecta Wall., nom. nud. (among others).

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

· Bangladesh J. Pl. Taxon. (1994)
· Thai Forest Bulletin
· Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’ (1832)
· Bangladesh Journal of Botany (1981)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (1786)
· Botany (1978)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Malyapushpa, for example chemical composition, diet and recipes, health benefits, side effects, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, have a look at these references.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Mālyapuṣpa (माल्यपुष्प).—a kind of hemp.

Derivable forms: mālyapuṣpaḥ (माल्यपुष्पः).

Mālyapuṣpa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms mālya and puṣpa (पुष्प).

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

Mālyapuṣpa (माल्यपुष्प):—[=mālya-puṣpa] [from mālya > māla] m. Cannabis Sativa or Crotolaria Juncea, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Malyapushpa 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

Mālyapuṣpa (ಮಾಲ್ಯಪುಷ್ಪ):—[noun] the hemp Crotalaria juncea of Papilionaceae family; Indian hem.

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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)

Partial matches: Pushpa, Malya.

Full-text: Shana.

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