Tuttha, Tuṭṭha, Tutthā: 20 definitions
Introduction:
Tuttha means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Rasashastra (Alchemy and Herbo-Mineral preparations)
Tuttha (तुत्थ) is a Sanskrit technical term corresponding to “Copper Sulphate”. It is also known as Sasyaka. It is commonly used in Rasaśāstra literature (Medicinal Alchemy) such as the Rasaprakāśasudhākara or the Rasaratna-samuccaya. Tuttha is an ingredient often used in various Ayurvedic recipes and Alchemical preparations.
Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)
1) Tutthā (तुत्था) or Tulyā is another name for Nīlī, a medicinal plant possibly identified with Indigofera tinctoria Linn. (“true indigo”), according to verse 4.80-83 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 Tutthā and Nīlī, there are a total of thirty Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.
2) Tutthā (तुत्था) is also mentioned as a synonym for Mahānīlī which is a variety of Nīlī: a medicinal plant possibly identified with Indigofera tinctoria Linn. (“true indigo”), according to verse 4.80-83. Together with the names Tutthā and Mahānīlī, there are a total of eight Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.
Unclassified Ayurveda definitions
Tuttha (तुत्थ) refers to “copper sulfate”, and is used throughout Ayurvedic literature such as the Caraka-saṃhitā and the Suśruta-saṃhitā. ‘Copper-sulfate’ is a potent sulfate (synthetic sulfur-based ingredient) of Salt and Copper, used as an antidote for poisoning by phosphorus and is also used to prevent the growth of algae.
Tuttha (तुत्थ) refers to “blue vitriol” and is mentioned as an ingredient of metallic drugs for the treatment of Visphoṭaka and Vraṇa, as mentioned in the 17th-century Vaidyavallabha (chapter 3) written by Hastiruci.—The Vaidyavallabha is a work which deals with the treatment and useful for all 8 branches of Ayurveda. The text Vaidyavallabha (mentioning tuttha) has been designed based on the need of the period of the author, availability of drugs during that time, disease manifesting in that era, socio-economical-cultural-familial-spiritual-aspects of that period Vaidyavallabha.
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.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
A lay disciple of Natika who died and was reborn in the Suddhavasa, there to attain Nibbana. S.v.358, D.ii.92.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Biology (plants and animals)
1) Tuttha in India is the name of a plant defined with Elettaria cardamomum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Zingiber minus Gaertn. (among others).
2) Tuttha is also identified with Indigofera tinctoria It has the synonym Indigofera bergii Vatke ex Engl. (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Nomenclator Botanicus (1797)
· Journal of Biosciences (1993)
· Taxon (1982)
· Cytologia (1989)
· The Gardeners Dictionary
· Indigofera (1768)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Tuttha, for example extract dosage, side effects, chemical composition, pregnancy safety, health benefits, diet and recipes, have a look at these references.
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
Pali-English dictionary
tuṭṭha : (pp. of tussati) satisfied.
Tuṭṭha, (pp. of tussati to be satisfied) pleased, satisfied; often combined w. haṭṭha (q. v.) i.e. tuṭṭha — haṭṭha J. I, 19 or haṭṭha-tuṭṭha J. II, 240; cp. tuṭṭha-pahaṭṭha J. II, 240.—Sn. 683; It. 103; J. I, 62 (°mānasa), 87, 266 (°citta), 308 (id.); IV, 138.—tuṭṭhabba (grd.) to be pleased with Vin. IV, 259. (Page 304)
1) tuttha (တုတ္ထ) [(na,thī) (န၊ထီ)]—
[tuda+tha=．rogaṃ tudati pīḷetīti tutthaṃ=osadhaṃ．ṇvādi．88．]
[တုဒ+ထ=ထက်။ ရောဂံ တုဒတိ ပီဠေတီတိ တုတ္ထံ=ဩသဓံ။ ဏွာဒိ။ ၈၈။]
2) tuṭṭha (တုဋ္ဌ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[tusa+ta．ka 573．rū．626．,5．14va．nīti,sutta．1176．(tuṭṭha-saṃ)]
[တုသ+တ။ ကစ္စည်း ၅၇၃။ ရူ။ ၆၂၆။ မောဂ်၊ ၅။ ၁၄ဝ။ နီတိ၊ သုတ္တ။ ၁၁၇၆။ (တုဋ္ဌ-သံ)]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) tuttha—
(Burmese text): (၁) ဒုတ္ထာ။ အာရကူဋလောဟ-ကြည့်။ (ထီ) (၂) ဖာလာငယ်။ (၃) မဲပင်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Dotehta. Arachudha - look. (2) Phalarngae. (3) Meipin.
2) tuṭṭha—
(Burmese text): (၁) တုဋ္ဌ-အမည်ရှိသော၊ သူ။ (၂) အားရ-ကျေနပ်-တင်းတိမ်-ရောင့်ရဲ-သော၊ သူ။ (၃) နှစ်သက်-ဝမ်းမြောက်-သော (စိတ်-စသည်)။ (၄) ကြည်လင်-ရွှင်ပျ-သော၊ သူ။ တုဋ္ဌစိတ္တ-လည်းကြည့်။ (၅) နှစ်သက်-ဝမ်းမြောက်-အပ်သော၊ နှစ်သက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။ (၆) နှစ်သက်-ဝမ်းမြောက်-ခြင်း။ တုဋ္ဌာကာရ-လည်းကြည့်။ (၇) အားရ-နှစ်သက်-ကျေနပ်-ရာ (အခါ-စသည်)။ တုဋ္ဌကာလ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Tuthata - a name, he. (2) Aarya - satisfied, eager, formidable, he. (3) Fond, rejoicing (in feelings, etc.). (4) Clear, cheerful, he. Also see Tuthata's mind. (5) Fond, rejoicing in a pleasing manner. (6) The state of fondness and joy. Also see Tuthata's nature. (7) Aarya - fond, satisfied in a circumstance, etc. See Tuthata's time.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Sanskrit dictionary
Tuttha (तुत्थ).—[tud-thak]
1) Fire.
2) A stone.
-ttham Sulphate of copper, usually applied to the eyes as a sort of collyrium or medical ointment.
-tthā 1 Small cardamoms.
2) The indigo plant.
Derivable forms: tutthaḥ (तुत्थः).
Tuttha (तुत्थ).—m.
(-tthaḥ) Fire. f.
(-tthā) 1. Indigo. 2. Small cardamoms. n.
(-tthaṃ) 1. A collyrium extracted from the Amomum zanthorrhiza. 2. Blue vitriol, sulphate of copper, especially medicinally considered as an Anjan, or application to the eyes. E. tud to pain, thak Unadi aff.
Tuttha (तुत्थ).—n. Blue vitriol, [Suśruta] 2, 13, 2.
Tuttha (तुत्थ).—[neuter] blue vitriol.
1) Tuttha (तुत्थ):—n. (m., [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]) blue vitriol (used as an eye-ointment), [Suśruta]
2) fire, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
3) n. a collyrium, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
4) a rock, [Uṇādi-sūtra] k.
5) Tutthā (तुत्था):—[from tuttha] f. the indigo plant, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
6) [v.s. ...] small cardamoms, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Tuttha (तुत्थ):—(tthaḥ) 1. m. Fire. f. Indigo; small cardamoms. n. Collyrium.
[Sanskrit to German]
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
Tuṭṭha (तुट्ठ) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Tuṣṭa.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
Tuttha (ತುತ್ಥ):—
1) [noun] a sulphate of copper; blue vitriol.
2) [noun] a large mass of stone; a rock.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Tuda, Ta, Tusha, Tha, Dhavala.
Starts with (+2): Tushita, Tutthabba, Tutthacitta, Tutthadi, Tutthagairikadi, Tutthahadaya, Tutthahatthamanasa, Tutthaka, Tutthakala, Tutthakara, Tutthakaramatta, Tutthamana, Tutthamanasa, Tutthamukha, Tutthanjana, Tuttharava, Tuttharupa, Tutthavattha, Tutthay, Tutthaya.
Full-text (+38): Tushita, Tutthanjana, Tutthi, Mushatuttha, Mayuratuttha, Tutthacitta, Kharparituttha, Tuttharava, Tutthamanasa, Cittatutthattha, Tutthaka, Karparikatuttha, Hiranya-tuttha, Tutthahadaya, Tutthakala, Tutthamana, Tuttharupa, Tutthindriya, Atuttha, Tutthavattha.
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Search found 28 books and stories containing Tuttha, Tuṭṭha, Tutthā, Tuda-tha, Tusa-ta; (plurals include: Tutthas, Tuṭṭhas, Tutthās, thas, tas). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Alchemy in India and China (by Vijaya Jayant Deshpande)
8. Case of Tutenag or Zinc < [Chapter 6 - Transmission of Alchemical and Chemical ideas (Part 2)]
World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research
A brief review on shweta malahara < [2018: Volume 7, October issue 17]
A pharmaceutical study of tuttha satvapatana w.s.r. to mridu satvapatana < [2018: Volume 7, July issue 13]
Conceptual review on sasyaka (tuttha) < [2022: Volume 11, March issue 3]
Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Part 14 - The Buddha’s Discourse at Nātika Village < [Chapter 40 - The Buddha Declared the Seven Factors of Non-Decline for Rulers]
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
Cosmetics, Costumes and Ornaments in Ancient India (by Remadevi. O.)
2.7. Pharmaceutical use of Keśarāga (Hair dye) < [Chapter 1 - Cosmetics]
1.1. Materials (b): Silver < [Chapter 3 - Ornaments]
A comparative pharmaceutico-analytical study of tutthadrav < [Volume 5, Issue 6: November-December 2018]
Review on Satvapatana: A Process of Essence Extraction < [Volume 10, Suppl 1: January-February 2023]
Efficacy of Kajjalikodaya Malahara in Chronic Post Operative Wound < [Volume 11, Issue 1: January-February 2024]
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