Subija, Subīja, Su-bija: 5 definitions

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Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Subīja (सुबीज) is another name for Khaskhasa, a medicinal plant identified with Papaver somniferum Linn. (or ‘opium poppy’) from the Papaveraceae or “poppy” family of flowering plants, according to verse 4.163 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The fourth chapter (śatāhvādi-varga) of this book enumerates eighty varieties of small plants (pṛthu-kṣupa). Together with the names Subīja and Khaskhasa, there are a total of four 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

Subīja (सुबीज).—good seed; सुबीजं चैव सुक्षेत्रे जातं संपद्यते तथा (subījaṃ caiva sukṣetre jātaṃ saṃpadyate tathā) Manusmṛti 1.69. (-jaḥ) 1 Name of Śiva.

2) the poppy.

Derivable forms: subījam (सुबीजम्).

Subīja is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms su and bīja (बीज).

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

Subīja (सुबीज).—[neuter] good seed; [adjective] having good seed.

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

1) Subīja (सुबीज):—[=su-bīja] [from su > su-pakva] n. good seed, [Manu-smṛti x, 69]

2) [v.s. ...] m. ‘having good seed’, Name of Śiva, [Mahābhārata]

3) [v.s. ...] the poppy, [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.

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