The Sanskrit terms Sūkṣmataṇḍula and Sūkṣmataṇḍulā can be transliterated into English as Suksmatandula or Sukshmatandula, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Sūkṣmataṇḍula (सूक्ष्मतण्डुल) 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 Sūkṣmataṇḍula and Khaskhasa, there are a total of four Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Sūkṣmataṇḍula (सूक्ष्मतण्डुल).—the poppy.

Derivable forms: sūkṣmataṇḍulaḥ (सूक्ष्मतण्डुलः).

Sūkṣmataṇḍula is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms sūkṣma and taṇḍula (तण्डुल).

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Sūkṣmataṇḍulā (सूक्ष्मतण्डुला).—

1) long pepper.

2) a kind of grass.

Sūkṣmataṇḍulā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms sūkṣma and taṇḍulā (तण्डुला).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Sūkṣmataṇḍula (सूक्ष्मतण्डुल).—m.

(-laḥ) The poppy. “khaskhas”. f.

(-lā) 1. Long-pepper. 2. A sort of grass, (Andropogon muricatum.) E. sūkṣma fine, taṇḍula grain.

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

1) Sūkṣmataṇḍula (सूक्ष्मतण्डुल):—[=sūkṣma-taṇḍula] [from sūkṣma] m. ‘having small seeds’, the poppy, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) Sūkṣmataṇḍulā (सूक्ष्मतण्डुला):—[=sūkṣma-taṇḍulā] [from sūkṣma-taṇḍula > sūkṣma] f. long pepper, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) [v.s. ...] Andropogon Muricatus, [Horace H. Wilson]

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

Sūkṣmataṇḍulā (सूक्ष्मतण्डुला):—[sūkṣma-taṇḍulā] (lā) 1. f. Long-pepper; sort of grass.

[Sanskrit to German]

Sukshmatandula 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: Sukshma, Tandula.

Full-text: Cukkumatantulam, Khaskhasa.

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