In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Wisdom Library: Āyurveda and botany

Pupphusa (पुप्फुस) refers to the “lungs”. The term is used throughout Ayurvedic literature such as the Suśruta-saṃhitā and the Caraka-saṃhitā.

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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 Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Pupphusa (पुप्फुस, “lungs ”) (Pali, Papphāsa) refers to one of the thirty-substances of the human body according to the Visuddhimagga, as mentioned in an appendix of the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter 32-34. The Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra mentions thirty-six substances [viz., pupphusa]; the Sanskrit sources of both the Lesser and the Greater Vehicles, physical substances are 26 in number while the Pāli suttas list thirty-once substances.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pupphusa (पुप्फुस).—

1) The lungs.

2) The pericarp of a lotus.

Derivable forms: pupphusaḥ (पुप्फुसः).

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

Pupphusa (पुप्फुस).—m.

(-saḥ) 1. The lungs. 2. The pericarp of a lotus. E. sphur to swell, deriv. irr. it is also written. phupphusa and puppusa.

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

Pupphusa (पुप्फुस).—and phuppusa phupphusa, m. The lungs.

— Cf. etc.

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

1) Pupphusa (पुप्फुस):—m. the lungs, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] (cf. phupphusa)

2) the pericarp or seed-pod of a lotus, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Pupphusa (पुप्फुस):—(saḥ) 1. m. The lungs.

[Sanskrit to German]

Pupphusa 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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Full-text: Phupphusa, Pushpasa, Papphasa, Pusphusa, Pumati, Dimba.

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

Appendix 3 - Thirty-two substances of the human body < [Chapter XXXII-XXXIV - The eight classes of supplementary dharmas]

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A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 2 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)

Part 3 - Organs in the Atharva-veda and Āyurveda < [Chapter XIII - Speculations in the Medical Schools]

Part 6 - Foetal Development < [Chapter XIII - Speculations in the Medical Schools]

Part 9 - Prāṇa and its Control < [Chapter XII - The Philosophy of the Yogavāsiṣṭha]

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Amarakoshodghatana of Kshirasvamin (study) (by A. Yamuna Devi)

Internal Anatomy < [Chapter 3 - Social Aspects]

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