In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Takrāhvā (तक्राह्वा) is the Sanskrit name for an unidentified medicinal plant, according to verse 4.161 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. Note: Takrāhvā has a Marathi synonym named Taka, and a Kannada synonym named Hittaṇike.

Takrāhvā is mentioned as having four synonyms: Takrabhakṣā, Takraparyāyavācakā, Pañcāṅgulī and Sitābhā.

Properties and characteristics: “Takrāhvā is pungent, anthelmintic and wound-healer”.

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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.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Takrahva in India is the name of a plant defined with Dactyloctenium aegyptium in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Eleusine mucronata (Michx.) Hornem., nom. illeg., non Eleusine mucronata Michx. (among others).

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

· Nomenclator Botanicus. Editio secunda (1840)
· Grasses of Ceylon (1956)
· Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1931)
· Enumeratio plantarum horti regii botanici berolinensis.
· Species Plantarum
· Flora Boreali-Americana (1803)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Takrahva, for example health benefits, pregnancy safety, chemical composition, extract dosage, diet and recipes, side effects, 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

Takrāhvā (तक्राह्वा):—[from takra > takman] f. Name of a shrub, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Takrahva 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Full-text: Pancanguli, Takrabhaksha, Sitabha, Takraparyayavacaka, Takra.

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