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Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Raktapunarnavā (रक्तपुनर्नवा) is the Sanskrit name for a medicinal plant identified with Boerhaavia diffusa Linn. or “red spiderling” from the Nyctaginaceae or “four o'clock” family of flowering plants, according to verse 5.117-120 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. Note: Raktapunarnavā is also known as Vṛścīva. Cf. Punarnavā and Nīlapunarnavā.

Raktapunarnavā is mentioned as having twenty-one synonyms: Krūrā, Maṇḍalapatrikā, Raktakāṇḍā, Varṣaketu, Lohitā, Raktapatrikā, Vaiśākhī, Raktavarṣābhū, Śophaghnī, Raktapuṣpikā, Vikasvarā, Viṣaghnī, Prāvṛṣeṇyā, Sāriṇī, Varṣābhava, Śoṇapatra, Śoṇa, Sammīlitadruma (Saṃmīlitadruma), Punarnava, Nava and Navya.

Properties and characteristics: “The red-flowered Punarnavā or Raktapunarnavā is bitter (tikta), purgative and cures the oedema. It is useful in menorrhagia or other types of dysfunctional uterine bleeding. It quells diseases due to vitiated pitta and anaemia”.

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

Raktapunarnavā (रक्तपुनर्नवा):—[=rakta-punarnavā] [from rakta > raj] f. a red-flowering Punarnavā, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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Raktapunarnava 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Raktapunarnava (ರಕ್ತಪುನರ್ನವ):—[noun] the plant Boerhaavia diffusa ( = B. procumbens, = B. repens) of Hyctaginaceae family; spreading hog weed.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Partial matches: Punarnava, Rakta.

Full-text (+12): Raktavarshabhu, Varshabhava, Shophaghni, Raktaparna, Shonapattra, Raktapattrika, Lohita, Krura, Raktapushpaka, Varshaketu, Raktapatrika, Shonapatra, Shona, Vikasvara, Sammilitadruma, Nava, Raktakanda, Vaishakhi, Navya, Mandalapatrika.

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