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Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Wisdom Library: Āyurveda and botany

Tarurāja (तरुराज) is another name (synonym) for Tāla, which is a Sanskrit name for the plant Borassus flabellifer (doub palm). This synonym was identified by Narahari in his 13th-century Rājanighaṇṭu (verse 9.83), which is an Ayurvedic medicinal thesaurus.

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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)

Taruraja in India is the name of a plant defined with Borassus flabellifer in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Pholidocarpus tunicatus H. Wendl. (among others).

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

· Palmiers (1878)
· Fl. Cochinch. (1790)
· Webbia (1914)
· Taxon (1979)
· Systema Vegetabilium. (1774)
· Botanica Acta (1997)

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

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Tarurāja (तरुराज).—the Tāla tree.

Derivable forms: tarurājaḥ (तरुराजः).

Tarurāja is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms taru and rāja (राज).

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

Tarurāja (तरुराज).—m.

(-jaḥ) The palmyra tree. E. taru, and rāja king, chief.

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

Tarurāja (तरुराज):—[=taru-rāja] [from taru] m. ‘tree-king’, the palmyra-tree, [Hemādri’s Caturvarga-cintāmaṇi ii, 1, 317.]

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

Tarurāja (तरुराज):—[taru-rāja] (jaḥ) 1. m. Palmyra tree.

[Sanskrit to German]

Taruraja 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)

Partial matches: Raja, Taru.

Starts with: Tarurajamaram, Tarurajan.

Full-text: Tala.

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