Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Wisdom Library: Local Names of Plants and Drugs

Panjala [पञ्जल] in the Sanskrit language is the name of a plant identified with Drimia indica (Roxb.) Jessop from the Asparagaceae (Asparagus) family having the following synonyms: Scilla indica, Urginea coromandeliana, Urginea indica. For the possible medicinal usage of panjala, you can check this page for potential sources and references, although be aware that any some or none of the side-effects may not be mentioned here, wether they be harmful or beneficial to health.

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

Panjala in India is the name of a plant defined with Bischofia javanica in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Andrachne trifoliata Roxburgh, nom. nud. (among others).

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

· Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1833)
· Numer. List (7956)
· Asian Journal of Chemistry (5150)
· Voyage dans l’Inde (1844)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Plantae Javanicae Rariores (1840)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Panjala, for example extract dosage, health benefits, pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, side effects, chemical composition, 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: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Pañjala (पञ्जल).—m. or nt. (= Sanskrit pañjara), cage: Lalitavistara 420.8 (all mss. l); repeatedly in mss. of Mahāvastu, where Senart always em. °ra, ii.241.14, 17 (one ms. °ra), 18; 242.5, 6, 7 (one ms. °ra), etc.; in these contexts both mss. sometimes °ra.

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

Pañjala (पञ्जल):—m. a kind of bulbous plant, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Panjala 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.

Prakrit-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary

Paṃjala (पंजल) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Prāñjala.

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Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Panca-lankalatanam, Pancalam, Pancalamattiyam, Pancalan, Pancalapurushan, Pancalar, Pancalatcanam, Pancalattar, Pancalavaccu.

Ends with: Supanjala, Suppamjala, Vastrapanjala.

Full-text: Pranjala, Kolakanda, Panjara, Vastrapanjala.

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