The Sanskrit term Puṣpamañjarikā can be transliterated into English as Puspamanjarika or Pushpamanjarika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Puṣpamañjarikā (पुष्पमञ्जरिका) is another name for Indīvarā, an unidentified medicinal, according to verse 3.94-95 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. Indīvarā has been variously identified with Śatāvara (Asparagus racemosus), Indravāruṇī (Citrullus colocynthis), Ajaśṛṅgī, Indracirbhaṭī, Kadalī, Kuraṇṭikā (Celosia argentea). The third chapter (guḍūcyādi-varga) of this book contains climbers and creepers (vīrudh). Together with the names Puṣpamañjarikā and Indīvarā, there are a total of six Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.

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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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Puṣpamañjarikā (पुष्पमञ्जरिका).—a blue lotus.

Puṣpamañjarikā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms puṣpa and mañjarikā (मञ्जरिका).

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

Puṣpamañjarikā (पुष्पमञ्जरिका).—f.

(-kā) The blue lotus.

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

Puṣpamañjarikā (पुष्पमञ्जरिका):—[=puṣpa-mañjarikā] [from puṣpa > puṣ] f. a species of creeper, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] (‘blue lotus’ [Horace H. Wilson])

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

Puṣpamañjarikā (पुष्पमञ्जरिका):—[puṣpa-mañjarikā] (kā) 1. f. Blue lotus.

[Sanskrit to German]

Pushpamanjarika 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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Partial matches: Pushpa, Manjarika.

Full-text: Indracirbhiti, Indivara.

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