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Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Wisdom Library: Āyurveda and botany

Masūrikā (मसूरिका) is another word for Masūra (Lens culinaris “lentil”) according to the Bhāvaprakāśa, which is a 16^th century medicinal thesaurus authored by Bhāvamiśra. The term is used throughout Ayurvedic literature.

Source: Shodhganga: Edition translation and critical study of yogasarasamgraha

Masūrikā (मसूरिका) refers to “small pox” and is one of the various diseases mentioned in the 15th-century Yogasārasaṅgraha (Yogasara-saṅgraha) by Vāsudeva: an unpublished Keralite work representing an Ayurvedic compendium of medicinal recipes. The Yogasārasaṃgraha [mentioning masūrikā] deals with entire recipes in the route of administration, and thus deals with the knowledge of pharmacy (bhaiṣajya-kalpanā) which is a branch of pharmacology (dravyaguṇa).

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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.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

masūrikā (मसूरिका) [or मसूरी, masūrī].—f S pop. masuṛyādēvī f pl A variety of the small pox. The pocks resemble the pulse masūra.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

masūrikā (मसूरिका).—f A variety of the small- pox.

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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

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Masūrikā (मसूरिका).—

1) A kind of small-pox (erection of small pustules).

2) A mosquito-curtain.

3) A procuress, bawd.

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

Masūrikā (मसूरिका).—f.

(-kā) 1. A bawd, a procuress. 2. Small pox. 3. A musquitocurtain. E. masūrā a whore, aff. kan, fem. form.

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

Masūrikā (मसूरिका).—i. e. masūra + ka, f. A procuress.

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

1) Masūrikā (मसूरिका):—[from masūraka > masura] f. lentil, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] eruption of lentil-shaped pustules, smallpox, [Suśruta]

3) [v.s. ...] a mosquito-curtain, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

4) [v.s. ...] a procuress, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Masūrikā (मसूरिका):—(nf) measles.

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