Biology (plants and animals)

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

Ponika in India is the name of a plant defined with Saccharum bengalense in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Erianthus sara (Roxb.) Rumke (among others).

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

· Lloydia (1958)
· Proc. 14th Congr. Int. Soc. Sugar Cane Technologists (1972)
· Indian Forester (1954)
· Flora Indica; or descriptions … (1820)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1987)
· Archief voor de Suikerindustrie in Nederland en Nederlandsch-Indië (1934)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Ponika, for example side effects, health benefits, pregnancy safety, chemical composition, diet and recipes, extract dosage, 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

Pali-English dictionary

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Poṇika, (adj.) (fr. poṇa2) that which is prone, going prone; DA. I, 23 where the passage is “tiracchāna-gata-pāṇāpoṇika-nikāyo cikkhallika-nikāyo ti, ” quoted from S. III, 152, where it runs thus: “tiracchāna-gata pāṇā te pi bhikkhave tiracchānagatā pāṇā citten’eva cittatā. ” The passage is referred to with poṇika at KhA 12, where we read “tiracchāna-gatā pāṇā poṇika-nikāyo cikkhallika-nikāyo ti. ” Thus we may take poṇikanikāya as “the kingdom of those which go prone” (i.e. the animals). (Page 474)

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Poṇika (पोणिक).—(-poṇika), m. (perhaps compare Deśīnāmamālā 6.28 poṇia = pūrṇa, 6.61 poṇiā = sūtrabhṛt tarkuḥ?), receptacle, container (Tibetan snod), in Mahāvyutpatti 8950 pātra-poṇikaḥ, bowl-carrier. Under Tibetan snod [Tibetan-English Dictionary] cites Sanskrit yonikā! corr. for poṇika? But Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iv.67.15 reads pātra-yoṇikā (fem., but ṇ, not n); Tibetan snod bzhag. Same meaning is given for Mahāvyutpatti 8951 pātra-sthapikaḥ (Index °sthavikaḥ); see sthavika.

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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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Full-text: Yonika, Sthavika.

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