The Sanskrit term Śaṅkhadrāva can be transliterated into English as Sankhadrava or Shankhadrava, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

śaṅkhadrāva (शंखद्राव).—m S The name of a menstruum which dissolves the shankh and shells. v kara, pāḍa.

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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

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Śaṅkhadrāva (शङ्खद्राव).—a solvent for dissolving shells.

Derivable forms: śaṅkhadrāvaḥ (शङ्खद्रावः).

Śaṅkhadrāva is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śaṅkha and drāva (द्राव). See also (synonyms): śaṅkhadrāvaka.

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

Śaṅkhadrāva (शङ्खद्राव):—[=śaṅkha-drāva] [from śaṅkha] m. a solvent for dissolving the conch or other shells (used in medicine), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Drava, Shankha.

Starts with: Shankhadravaka.

Full-text: Shankhadravaka.

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