The Sanskrit terms Parśukā and Pārśukā can be transliterated into English as Parsuka or Parshuka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: gurumukhi.ru: Ayurveda glossary of terms

Parśukā (पर्शुका):—[parśukāḥ] ''Ribs or costae. Curved Bones extending laterally and anteriorly from sides of thoracic vertebrae and forming skeletal thorax''

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Parśukā (पर्शुका).—A rib.

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Pārśukā (पार्शुका).—A rib.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Pārśukā (पार्शुका).—(= Sanskrit Lex. id., Pali phāsukā; compare pāṃ- śulika, °kā, and Sanskrit parśu, °śukā, as well as [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] pār- śvakā, pārśvika), rib: Lalitavistara 254.9 (twice), 11; 255.22 (v.l. in all pārśvakā, q.v.); (of a house) ‘rib’, rafter, Udānavarga xxxi.7 (spelled pārṣukā; same verse in Pali, Dhammapada (Pali) 154, phāsukā; see s.v. visaṃskāra).

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

Parśukā (पर्शुका).—f.

(-kā) A rib. E. pṛ to fill, to complete, śun aff. and kan added.

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

1) Parśukā (पर्शुका):—[from parśu] f. a rib, [Suśruta]

2) Pārśukā (पार्शुका):—[from pārśava] f. = parśukā, a rib, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Parśukā (पर्शुका):—(kā) 1. f. A rib.

[Sanskrit to German]

Parshuka 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.

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Starts with: Parshukagrani.

Ends with: Upaparshuka.

Full-text: Parshvaka, Upaparshuka, Parshvika, Anisada, Pamshulika, Phasuka.

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