In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: archive.org: Vagbhata’s Ashtanga Hridaya Samhita (first 5 chapters)

Panasaphala (पनसफल) refers to “bread-fruit”, and is sometimes identified with Coca which is mentioned in verse 3.31 of the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Sūtrasthāna) by Vāgbhaṭa.—Coca (K wrongly prints a second moca) usually denotes the cinnamon bark but may also stand for the coco-nut, the fan-palm fruit, and the banana (MW p. 402). Adding to this uncertainty, Aruṇadatta identifies it as panasaphala (“bread-fruit”), while Indu is silent on the point. Candranandana and Hemādri, however, give nālikera (“coco-nut”) as equivalent, and this is also the meaning of rgya-star (corrupted to rgyas-ltar in NP), which recurs in 5.19 & 6.117 as the sole spelling of all xylographs and roughly translates “large nut”.

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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.

In Jainism

Jain philosophy

Source: archive.org: Anekanta Jaya Pataka of Haribhadra Suri

Panasaphala (पनसफल) (Sanskrit; in Prakrit: Phaṇasaphala) refers to the “fruit of the jack-fruit tree”, as occurring in the Anekāntajayapatākā-prakaraṇa, a Śvetāmbara Jain philosophical work written by Haribhadra Sūri.—[Cf. Vol. I, P. 193, l. 15]—‘Panasa’ (Prakrit: Phaṇasa) is the name of a fruit and a tree, too. The tree is called phaṇasa in Gujarati, kaṭahara in Hindi and jack-fruit tree in English. Here this word stands for a tree of this name and not for its fruit. Further, it does not here mean ‘a thorn’. The word ‘panasa’ occurs on p. 194, l. 23; p. 318, l. 21; p. 371, l. 12, & p. 398, l. 21, and the word phaṇasa in Paṇhavagaraṇa (I) and Paumacariya (XXXIII, 2). In Principal Karmarkar’s edition (p. 214) of Mṛcchakatika (VIII) there is the word phaṇasaphala. In Tarkarahasyadīpikā (p. 63b) it is said that the ‘panasa’ tree gets fructified when embraced by a woman.

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Partial matches: Phala, Panasa.

Starts with: Panasaphaladayaka.

Full-text: Coca.

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