Navasara, Navasāra, Nava-sara, Navan-sara: 9 definitions
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Navasara means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Rasashastra (Alchemy and Herbo-Mineral preparations)
Source: Wisdom Library: Rasa-śāstraNavasāra (नवसार, “ammonium chloride”):—Sanskrit name for one of the drugs belonging to the Sādhāraṇarasa group, according to the Rasaprakāśasudhākara: a 13th century Sanskrit book on Indian alchemy, or, Rasaśāstra. Navasāra is useful when melting metals. It also serves as an effective agent when treating mercury. Ammonium chloride is an acidic compound consisting of the salt of ammonia and hydrogen choloride.
Source: archive.org: Rasa-Jala-Nidhi: Or Ocean of indian chemistry and alchemyNavasāra (नवसार) or Narasāra refers to “Sal-ammoniac”. (see Bhudeb Mookerji and his Rasajalanidhi)
Source: Indian Journal of History of Science: Rasaprakāśa-sudhākara, chapter 6Navasāra (ammonium chloride).—Navasāra is also called Culhikālavaṇa. It is also known as Lohadrāvaṇaka (helps in the melting of metals) and Rasajāraṇaka (helps in the Jāraṇa-saṃskāra of mercury)
It stimulates agni (digestive fire), destroys gulma and plīharoga, acts as māṃsajāraṇa (help in the digestion of flash and also in food digestion).
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarynavasara (नवसर).—a Recent: also as ad recently. See navathara.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishnavasara (नवसर).—a See navathara.
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 dictionaryNavasāra (नवसार).—a kind of Ayurvedic decoction; नवसारो भवेच्छुद्धश्चूर्णतोयैर्विपाचितः । दोलायन्त्रेण यत्नेन भिषग्भिर्योगसिद्धये (navasāro bhavecchuddhaścūrṇatoyairvipācitaḥ | dolāyantreṇa yatnena bhiṣagbhiryogasiddhaye) || Vaidyachandrikā.
Derivable forms: navasāraḥ (नवसारः).
Navasāra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms nava and sāra (सार).
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Navasara (नवसर).—a kind of ornament consisting of nine pearls.
Derivable forms: navasaraḥ (नवसरः), navasaram (नवसरम्).
Navasara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms navan and sara (सर).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryNavasara (नवसर):—[=nava-sara] [from nava] m. or n. a kind of ornament consisting of pearls, [Pañcadaṇḍacchattra-prabandha]
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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 corpusNavāsāra (ನವಾಸಾರ):—[noun] = ನವವರ್ಷ [navavarsha]2.
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: Nava, Sara, Cara.
Starts with: Navacaram, Navasaranem, Navasarani.
Ends with: Anavasara, Bhojanavasara, Horashastrarnavasara, Kularnavasara, Lagnavasara, Manavasara, Paranavasara, Rannavasara, Shishirakiranavasara, Vivadanavasara.
Full-text: Narasara, Culika, Khanapita, Navasaranem, Sadharanarasa.
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Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 2: Minerals (uparasa) (by Bhudeb Mookerjee)
Part 1 - Characteristics of Navasara (sal ammoniac) < [Chapter XVIII - Uparasa (19): Navasara (sal ammoniac)]
Part 5 - Extraction of essence from haritala < [Chapter XII - Uparasa (13): Haritala (orpiment)]
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 3: Metals, Gems and other substances (by Bhudeb Mookerjee)
Part 6 - Lavana (6): Chulika salt < [Chapter XXIX - Lavana (salts)]
Part 1 - Alkaline substance (1): Java-kshara < [Chapter XXVIII - Kshara (akalis)]
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 4: Iatrochemistry (by Bhudeb Mookerjee)
Treatment for fever (107): Mritasamjivana-suchikabharana-rasa < [Chapter II - Fever (jvara)]
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 1: Initiation, Mercury and Laboratory (by Bhudeb Mookerjee)
Part 12 - Mercurial operations (10): Swallowing of metals of Mercury (grasana) < [Chapter IV-V - Mercurial operations]
Part 1 - Additional process for transformation of base metals into gold and silver < [Chapter VIII - Conclusion of first volume]