Saivala, Śaivala, Shaivala, Saivāla, Śaivāla, Śāivāla: 19 definitions
Introduction:
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The Sanskrit terms Śaivala and Śaivāla and Śāivāla can be transliterated into English as Saivala or Shaivala, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Shaival.
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Śāivāla (शाइवाल).—A town in India. There is a reference to it in Mahābhārata, Bhīṣma Parva, Chapter 52, Verse 18.
1a) Saivāla (सैवाल).—A Kulaparvata of Bhadrāśva.*
- * Vāyu-purāṇa 43. 14.
1b) A Janapada of the Bhadrā country.*
- * Vāyu-purāṇa 43. 21.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)
Śaivāla (शैवाल) (or Sauvala, Sauvara) is the name of a saṃdoha (meeting place) [or upasaṃdoha—secondary meeting place?), according to the Śrīmatottara-tantra verse 3.135-138, an expansion of the Kubjikāmatatantra: the earliest popular and most authoritative Tantra of the Kubjikā cult.—The first saṃdoha of the Yoginīs was emanated near to Śrīgiri and the second near the town of Ujjayinī. The others are Trikūṭa, Tripura, Gopura, Bhadrakarṇa ([Manuscript] Kh: Bhadrakaṣṭa; [Manuscript] G: Bhadrakīrṇa), Kirāta, the region of Kaśmīra, Sauvala (kh: Sauvara, g: Śaivāla) and Sindhudeśa.
Shakta (शाक्त, śākta) or Shaktism (śāktism) represents a tradition of Hinduism where the Goddess (Devi) is revered and worshipped. Shakta literature includes a range of scriptures, including various Agamas and Tantras, although its roots may be traced back to the Vedas.
Ayurveda (science of life)
Veterinary Medicine (The study and treatment of Animals)
Śaivala (शैवल) refers to a type of “water grass” (whose odor is said to resemble certain elephants) , according to the 15th century Mātaṅgalīlā composed by Nīlakaṇṭha in 263 Sanskrit verses, dealing with elephantology in ancient India, focusing on the science of management and treatment of elephants.—[Cf. chapter 8, “on marks of character”]: “8. Who has an odor like those of fish, śaivala (a water grass), phaṇirjaka (kind of basil), mud, brandy, or raw flesh, who is frightened when he hears even the rumbling of the clouds, becomes enraged at night, and delights in water and dust,—he is a serpent”.
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)
Śaivala (शैवल) was the son of Amṛtā (aunt of the Buddha), as mentioned in the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter 39. Śaivala [in Sanskrit], Sivali in Pāli, was proclaimed by the Buddha (Anguttara, I, p. 24) to be the foremost of those who receive and his generosity equaled his wealth.
Note: According to the Pāli sources (Udāna, commentary on Anguttara, Dahammapada and Jātaka), Sīvali was the son of Suppavāsā, princess of the Koliyas, who carried him in her womb for seven years. At his birth, the baby was able to speak. Sāriputta spoke with him and, with the approval of his mother, proceeded to ordain him. During the ceremony of his tonsure at each snip of the scissors, the child attained a new fruit of the religious life, becoming successively Srotaāpanna, Sakṛdāgāmin, Anāgāmin and finally Arhat.
Śaivala (in Pāli, Sīvali) is mentioned in the Śaivalajātaka, according to chapter L: “thus Che-p’o-lo (Śaivala), enjoyed happiness from lifetime to lifetime and became an Arhat for having offered a bottle of cream to the saṃgha: he is foremost among those who have found happiness”.
Notes: The Ekottara places Śaivala among the physically and mentally happy men, always availing themselves of the four pūjāpariṣkāra,—clothing, food, drink, bed and seat, medicine—and never falling into the three bad destinies. The Mahāvibhāṣā stresses his precocity during his successive lifetimes: as soon as he came into the world, he asked his parents if there was anything to give as alms.
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.
Biology (plants and animals)
Saivala in India is the name of a plant defined with Blyxa octandra in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Hydrolirion coreanum Lév. (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae (1864)
· The Flora of British India (1888)
· Mémoires de la Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques de L’Institut National de France (1812)
· Journal of Japanese Botany (1943)
· Voyage dans l’Inde (1844)
· Nomenclator Botanicus. (1840)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Saivala, for example diet and recipes, extract dosage, chemical composition, pregnancy safety, health benefits, side effects, have a look at these references.
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
Marathi-English dictionary
śaivala (शैवल) [or शैवाल, śaivāla].—m n S See the derivative śēvāḷa.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Śaivala (शैवल).—[śī-valac Uṇādi-sūtra 4.38] A kind of aquatic plant, moss; सरसिजमनुविद्धं शैवलेनापि रम्यम् (sarasijamanuviddhaṃ śaivalenāpi ramyam) Ś.1.2; न षट्पदश्रेणिभि- रेव पङ्कजं सशैवलासंगमपि प्रकाशते (na ṣaṭpadaśreṇibhi- reva paṅkajaṃ saśaivalāsaṃgamapi prakāśate) Kumārasambhava 5.9.
-lam A kind of fragrant wood.
Derivable forms: śaivalaḥ (शैवलः).
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Śaivāla (शैवाल).—See शैवल (śaivala).
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Saivāla (सैवाल).—See शेवाल (śevāla).
Śaivala (शैवल).—(1) name of a nāga king: Mahā-Māyūrī 247.30; (2) name of a Buddhist elder: Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.191.1 ff.
Śaivala (शैवल).—m.
(-laḥ) An aquatie plant, moss. n.
(-laṃ) A drug, commonly termed Padma-kat'h. E. śī to sleep, (on the water,) valañ aff.; also śaivāla śevāla, &c.
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Śaivāla (शैवाल).—m.
(-laḥ) An aquatic plant, (Vallisneria octandra.) E. śī to sleep, (on the water,) vālañ aff., śevāla and aṇ pleonasm.
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Saivāla (सैवाल).—n.
(-laṃ) Name of an aquatic plant: see śaivāla .
Śaivala (शैवल).—śaivāla, see śevāla.
Śaivala can also be spelled as Śaivāla (शैवाल).
Śaivala (शैवल).—[substantive] a cert. water-plant; [masculine] [plural] [Name] of a people.
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Śaivāla (शैवाल).—[neuter] = śaivala.
1) Śaivala (शैवल):—[from śaiva] mn. (ifc. f(ā). cf. śevala), Blyxa Octandra (a kind of duck-weed or green moss-like plant growing in pools and often alluded to in poetry), [Mahābhārata; Harivaṃśa; Kāvya literature] etc.
2) [v.s. ...] m. Name of a mountain, [Rāmāyaṇa]
3) [v.s. ...] of a serpent-demon, [Buddhist literature]
4) [v.s. ...] ([plural]) of a people, [Mahābhārata] ([Calcutta edition] śaibāla)
5) [v.s. ...] n. the (fragrant) wood of Cerasus Puddum (used in medicine), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
6) Śaivāla (शैवाल):—[from śaiva] n. the Śaivala plant, [Mahābhārata; Harivaṃśa] etc.
7) [v.s. ...] m. Name of a mountain, [Mārkaṇḍeya-purāṇa]
8) [v.s. ...] ([plural]) of a people, [Mahābhārata; Viṣṇu-purāṇa]
9) Saivāla (सैवाल):—See śaivāla.
1) Śaivala (शैवल):—(laḥ) 1. m. An aquatic plant. n. A drug, Paṃkāth.
2) Śaivāla (शैवाल):—(laḥ) 1. m. An aquatic plant, Valisneria octandra.
Śaivala (शैवल):—[Uṇādisūtra 4, 38.] m. [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 5, 5.]
1) Blyxa octandra, eine Wasserpflanze, m. [Amarakoṣa 1, 2, 3, 37.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 1, 2, 35.] [Medinīkoṣa l. 141. Nalopākhyāna] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1167.] [Halāyudha 3, 61.] unbestimmt ob m. oder n. [Hārāvalī 106.] [Mahābhārata 1, 8016. 3, 17315. 4, 2015. 6, 4165. 13, 3790. 6502. 18, 43.] [Harivaṃśa 9626.] [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 55, 1. 78, 19.] [Suśruta 2, 323, 16.] mañjarīṇāṃ jālāni [Raghuvaṃśa 5, 46.] [Kumārasaṃbhava 5, 9.] [Spr. 3190. 5190. (II) 2001.] [Pañcatantra 188, 12.] am Ende eines adj. comp. f. ā [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 50, 11.] [Rāmāyaṇa] [Gorresio 2, 47, 1. 3, 76, 6. 6, 18, 24.] neutr. = padmakāṣṭha [Medinīkoṣa] —
2) m. pl. Nomen proprium eines Volkes [Mahābhārata 6, 361] nach der Lesart der ed. Bomb., śaibāla ed. Calc.; vgl. [Viṣṇupurāṇa 191.] —
3) m. Nomen proprium eines Berges [Rāmāyaṇa 7, 75, 13. 77, 5. 79, 16.] — Vgl. śaibāla .
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Śaivāla (शैवाल):—[Śāntanācārya’s Phiṭsūtrāṇi 3, 18.]
1) = śaivala
1) n. [UJJVAL.] zu [Uṇādisūtra 4, 38.] [Amarakoṣa 1, 2, 3, 37.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1167.] [Mahābhārata 4, 2015. 12, 11281. 13, 2660.] [Harivaṃśa 3646.] [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 59, 30.] [CARAKA 1, 3.] [Suśruta 1, 41, 10. 145, 22. 170, 19. 171, 18. 206, 10.] [VĀGBH. 1, 5, 6.] [Raghuvaṃśa 16, 61.] [Spr. (II) 5561.] —
2) m. pl. = śaivala
2) [Mahābhārata 6, 361] [?(Viṣṇupurāṇa 191).] —
3) m. = śaivala
3) [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 59, 4.] — Vgl. śīpāla .
Śaivala (शैवल) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Sevala, Sevāḍa, Sevāla.
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.
Hindi dictionary
Śaivāla (शैवाल) [Also spelled shaival]:—(nm) see [śevāla].
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Kannada-English dictionary
Śaivala (ಶೈವಲ):—[noun] any of various classes (esp. Bryopsida) of very small, green bryophytes having stems with leaf-like structures and growing in velvety clusters on rocks; moss.
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Śaivaḷa (ಶೈವಳ):—[noun] = ಶೈವಲ [shaivala].
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Śaivāla (ಶೈವಾಲ):—
1) [noun] = ಶೈವಲ [shaivala].
2) [noun] the plant Vallisueria spiralis ( = V. octandra) of Hydrocharitaceae family.
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Śaivāḷa (ಶೈವಾಳ):—[noun] = ಶೈವಲ [shaivala].
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
1) Śaivāla (शैवाल):—n. algae;
2) Saivāla (सैवाल):—n. water weeds; green slime on water; moss on damp walls;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with (+0): Caivalam, Shaivalaka, Shaivalavajra, Shaivalavant, Shaivalavat, Shaivalini.
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