The Sanskrit term Śaṅkhāvatī can be transliterated into English as Sankhavati or Shankhavati, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Shankhavati in India is the name of a plant defined with Evolvulus alsinoides in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Convolvulus valerianoides Blanco (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Meded. Bot. Mus. Herb. Rijks Univ. Utrecht (1934)
· Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1906)
· Flora (1844)
· London Journal of Botany (1846)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (Lamarck) (1789)
· Fieldiana, Botany (1970)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Shankhavati, for example diet and recipes, chemical composition, side effects, health benefits, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, have a look at these references.

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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

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Śaṅkhāvatī (शङ्खावती):—[=śaṅkhā-vatī] [from śaṅkha] f. (for śaṅkha-v) Name of a river, [Mārkaṇḍeya-purāṇa]

[Sanskrit to German]

Shankhavati 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: Shankha, Vati.

Starts with: Shankhavatika, Shankhavatirasa.

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