Niryasa, Niryāsa: 19 definitions
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In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Kalpa (Formulas, Drug prescriptions and other Medicinal preparations)
Niryāsa (निर्यास, “juice”) is another name for Svarasa, a Sanskrit technical term appearing in the 15th-century Yogasārasaṅgraha (Yogasara-saṅgraha) by Vāsudeva..—Niryāsa is a synonym of Svarasa (“juice”).—The juice expressed out of a drug, as soon as it is plucked, by mechanical pressure is svarasa. When the essence is not easily got, i.e. in the case of hard drugs, special methods like boiling over fire, steam boiling, heating with mud bolus etc are used.
Toxicology (Study and Treatment of poison)
Niryāsa (निर्यास) refers to “that which removes” or “extracts” (phlegm), according to the Kāśyapa Saṃhitā: an ancient Sanskrit text from the Pāñcarātra tradition dealing with both Tantra and Viṣacikitsā, which represents the Ayurvedic study on Toxicology (Viṣavidyā or Sarpavidyā).—Accordingly, the treatment is mentioned as follows: “Boil fresh water and apply the same on the limbs. Drinking fresh hot water acts as an expectorant by removing phlegm (kapha-niryāsa)”.
Agriculture (Krishi) and Vrikshayurveda (study of Plant life)
Niryāsa (निर्यास) refers to the “exudation” part of plants, representing a technical term related to the morphology branch of “plant science”, which ultimately involves the study of life history of plants, including its origin and development, their external and internal structures and the relation of the members of the plant body with one another.—The vṛkṣāṅga-sūtrīya-adhyāya, i.e., the chapter of the bījotpatti-kāṇḍa of Parāśara’s Vṛkṣāyurveda deals with various parts of plants, e.g., Exudation (niryāsa). In trees, creepers, shrubs when their branches, leaves etc. are cut off or their trunk is damaged by the sharp instrument, a kind of exudation comes out. It is called niryāsa. Exudation, according to their nature has different physical properties. Some may have free flowing (pariplava) [tatra pariplavantu salilasaṃkāśam]. Others may be frothy (phena); slimy (sāndra); again others may be milky juice i.e. latex (kṣīra). Sometimes, they even may be sticky (moca) or oleo-resinous (jatuka). The former is devoid of oil, while the latter is an inflammable substance
Unclassified Ayurveda definitions
Niryāsa (निर्यास):—Exudate of a plant
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.
Yoga (school of philosophy)
Niryāsa (निर्यास) refers to the “(lunar) secretion”, according to the Amṛtasiddhi, a 12th-century text belonging to the Haṭhayoga textual tradition.—Accordingly, “The sphere of the sun is at the base of the Central Channel, complete with twelve digits, shining with its rays. The lord of creatures (Prajāpati), of intense appearance, travels upwards on the right. Staying in the pathways in the spaces in the channels it pervades the entire body. The sun consumes the lunar secretion (candra-niryāsa), wanders in the sphere of the wind and burns up all the bodily constituents in all bodies”.
Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).
Shyanika-shastra (the science of Hawking and Hunting)
Niryāsa (निर्यास) refers to the “exudation (of the pine-trees)”, according to the Śyainika-śāstra: a Sanskrit treatise dealing with the divisions and benefits of Hunting and Hawking, written by Rājā Rudradeva (or Candradeva) in possibly the 13th century.—Accordingly, [while discussing the treatment of hawks]: “In summer, [...] when birds cry out piteously, then the season, like the forest fire, becomes intolerable to these birds [i.e., hawks], who are accustomed to the valleys of the Himalayas, on which fine slabs of stone lie scattered, cleanly washed by the waterfalls and overgrown with young shoots of emerald-green grass, and where the breezes blow fragrant with the exudation of the pine-trees (sarala-niryāsa). Therefore cooling processes should be now resorted to”.
Shyanika-shastra (श्यैनिकशास्त्र, śyainikaśāstra) deals with ancient Indian skill of hawking/falconry (one of the ways of hunting) which were laid down in a systematic manner in various Sanskrit treatises. It also explains the philosophy behind how the pleasures derived from sense-experience could lead the way to liberation.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
niryāsa (निर्यास).—m S Sap, juice, gum &c., any natural exudation. Ex. of comp. khadira-guggula-dhātrī-pippala-bada- rī-babbula-vṛkṣa-śigruka-sarala-sarjja-niryāsa. 2 Extract, decoction, infusion.
niryāsa (निर्यास).—n Sap, juice. Extract.
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
Niryāsa (निर्यास).—
1) Exudation of trees or plants, gum, juice, resin; शालनिर्यासगन्धिभिः (śālaniryāsagandhibhiḥ) R.1.38; Manusmṛti 5.6.
2) Extract, infusion, decoction; अवकिरति नितान्तं कान्ति- निर्यासमब्दस्रुतनवजलपाण्डुं पुण्डरीकोदरेषु (avakirati nitāntaṃ kānti- niryāsamabdasrutanavajalapāṇḍuṃ puṇḍarīkodareṣu) Śiśupālavadha 11.62.
3) Any thick fluid substance.
Derivable forms: niryāsaḥ (निर्यासः), niryāsam (निर्यासम्).
Niryāsa (निर्यास).—m.
(-saḥ) 1. Extract, decoction, infusion. 2. Any natural exudation of a plant, as gum, milk, extract, &c. 3. Any thick fluid substance. E. nir forth or out, yas to endeavour, affix ghañ; it is also read niryāsa.
Niryāsa (निर्यास).—i. e. nis-yas + a, m. (and n.). 1. Exudations of trees, gum, resin, etc., [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 5, 6. 2. Exudation, [Harivaṃśa, (ed. Calc.)] 4747.
Niryāsa (निर्यास).—[masculine] exudation of trees, juice, resin, milk, etc.
1) Niryāsa (निर्यास):—[=nir-yāsa] m. (n. [gana] ardharcādi; √yas) exudation of trees or plants, juice, resin, milk (ifc. f(ā). ), [Gautama-dharma-śāstra; Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata; Suśruta] etc.
2) [v.s. ...] any thick fluid substance, [Harivaṃśa]
3) [v.s. ...] extract, decoction, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] (also syā f., [Viṣṇu-smṛti, viṣṇu-sūtra, vaiṣṇava-dharma-śāstra [Scholiast or Commentator]])
Niryāsa (निर्यास):—[nir-yāsa] (saḥ) 1. m. Extract; exudation.
Niryāsa (निर्यास):—(von yas mit nis) m. n. gaṇa ardharcādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 4, 31.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 5, 10] (fälschlich niryāśa). [Siddhāntakaumudī.249,b,7.] Zu belegen nur das m. Ausschwitzung der Bäume, Harz, Milch u.s.w. [Amarakoṣa 3, 6, 2, 13.] [Halāyudha 5, 75.] [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 2, 5, 1, 4.] lohitānvṛkṣaniryāsān [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 5, 6.] [Mahābhārata 1, 1137. 13, 4129. 4715. fg. 4728.] mumucuḥ pādapāścaiva dāhaniryāsajaṃ jalam [Harivaṃśa 5532.] candanāguru [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 76, 16.] varṣin [96, 11] (vāṣpin [105, 10] [Gorresio]). saniryāseva śallakī [3, 26, 28. 5, 83, 14.] [Suśruta 1, 5, 1. 145, 13.] viṣa [2, 252, 3. 251, 13.] kecukākanda [116, 16.] varuṇasya [249, 19.] nimba [?327, 17. Raghuvaṃśa 1, 38. VARĀH. BṚH. 26 (25), 33. Daśakumāracarita in Benfey’ Chrestomathie aus Sanskritwerken 199, 12.] teṣāṃ niryāsarūpeṇa brahmahatyā pradṛśyate [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6, 9, 8.] kaṃsasyātha mukhasvedo bhrūbhedāntaragocaraḥ . abhavadroṣaniryāsaḥ (eine Ausschwitzung des Zorns) kṛṣṇasaṃdarśaneritaḥ [Harivaṃśa 4747.] dickflüssige Masse überh.: (vāyuḥ) niryāsabhūtaḥ [Harivaṃśa 12054.] ausgekochter Saft, Decoct (kaṣāya) [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 34, 155.] — Vgl. agni, kāla, tantu, śāla, hiṅgu .
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Niryāsa (निर्यास):—vgl. māṃsa .
Niryāsa (निर्यास):—m. (*n.) Ausschwitzung der Bäume , Harz , Milch u.s.w. [Gautama's Dharmaśāstra] dickflüssige Masse überh. Am Ende eines adj. Comp. f. ā.
Niryāsa (निर्यास) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Ṇijjāsa.
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
Niryāsa (ನಿರ್ಯಾಸ):—
1) [noun] a sticky, colloidal carbohydrate found in certain trees and plants, which dissolves in water and used as or in making adhesive; a gum.
2) [noun] any thick, colloidal substance.
3) [noun] an extract produced by decocting; decoction.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Niryāsa (निर्यास):—n. 1. exudation of trees or plants; gum; resin; 2. back of tree; 3. thorn;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Nir, Yasa.
Starts with (+0): Niryasatagara, Niryashaska.
Full-text (+47): Pushpaniryasa, Vrikshaniryasa, Agniniryasa, Tantuniryasa, Kalaniryasa, Hinguniryasa, Shalaniryasa, Shailaniryasa, Mocaniryasa, Mamsaniryasa, Shilaniryasa, Niryusha, Sugandhatailaniryasa, Niryasika, Suniryasa, Drumaniryasa, Lohaniryasa, Himnguniryasa, Neriyacam, Niryasya.
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