Alternative spellings of this word include Upachakra.

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Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Wisdom Library: Āyurveda and botany

Upacakra (उपचक्र) is a Sanskrit word referring to a kind of chukar partridge. The meat of this animal is part of the māṃsavarga (‘group of flesh’), which is used throughout Ayurvedic literature. The animal Upacakra is part of the group of birds named Lāvādi, which is a sub-group of Viṣkira, refering to “birds similar to common quail who eat while scattering the gains”. It was classified by Caraka in his Carakasaṃhitā sūtrasthāna (chapter 27), a classical Ayurvedic work. Caraka defined such groups (vargas) based on the dietic properties of the substance.

Source: archive.org: Sushruta samhita, Volume I

Upachakra (उपछक्र)—Sanskrit word for a bird. This animal is from the group called Viṣkira (which scatter). Viṣkira itself is a sub-group of the group of animals known as Jāṅghala (living in high ground and in a jungle).

The flesh of the Krakara or of the Upachakra is light, pleasant (palatable), spermatopoietic, and appetising. It subdues the Vāyu and Pittam and improves the intellect.

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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

Upacakra (उपचक्र).—[upagataḥ cakraṃ cakravākam] A variety of the ruddy goose. Mahābhārata (Bombay) 3.178.7.

Derivable forms: upacakraḥ (उपचक्रः).

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

Upacakra (उपचक्र).—m.

(-kraḥ) A variety of the ruddy goose. E. upa minor, and cakra the Chakwa.

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

Upacakra (उपचक्र).—[upa-cakra], m. The name of a bird akin to the cakra or cakravāka, Mahābhārata 3, 11613.

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

Upacakra (उपचक्र):—[=upa-cakra] m. a species of duck (cf. cakra and cakra-vāka), [Mahābhārata]

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

Upacakra (उपचक्र):—[upa-cakra] (kraḥ) 1. m. A ruddy goose.

[Sanskrit to German]

Upacakra 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: Cakra, Upa.

Ends with: Kupacakra.

Full-text: Lavadi.

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Mahabharata (English) (by Kisari Mohan Ganguli)

Section CLVII < [Tirtha-yatra Parva]

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