The Sanskrit term Nakuleṣṭā can be transliterated into English as Nakulesta or Nakuleshta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Nakuleshta in India is the name of a plant defined with Vanda tessellata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Cymbidium tessellatum (Roxb.) Sw. (among others).

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

· Bot. Reg. (1820)
· Ann. Bot. Syst. (Walpers) (1864)
· Loudon’s Hortus Britannicus. (1830)
· Numer. List (7318)
· Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal. (1799)
· Taxon (1981)

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

Nakuleṣṭā (नकुलेष्टा).—a kind of medicinal plant (Mar. muṃgusa- vela).

Nakuleṣṭā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms nakula and iṣṭā (इष्टा). See also (synonyms): nakuleṣṭakā.

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

Nakuleṣṭā (नकुलेष्टा).—f.

(-ṣṭā) A plant: see rāsnā. E. nakula an ichneumon, and iṣṭa wished; the mungoose, if wounded in a conflict with a poisonous snake, is supposed to prevent the effects of the venom by the use of this plant; also nakuleṣṭakā.

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

Nakuleṣṭā (नकुलेष्टा):—[from nakula] f. ‘liked by the i°’, a kind of [medicine] plant (cf. above), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Nakuleṣṭā (नकुलेष्टा):—[nakule+ṣṭā] (ṣṭā) 1. f. A plant.

[Sanskrit to German]

Nakuleshta 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)

Partial matches: Ishta, Nakula.

Starts with: Nakuleshtaka.

Full-text: Bhujamgakshi, Bhujamgadamani, Nakuleshtaka, Damshtrika, Nakuli, Nakula.

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