India history and geography

Source: Project Gutenberg: Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Volume 1

Uppara (“spade and basket for collecting salt”) is the name of an insignia engraved on the handle of a ladle that is carried round among the Holeyas (field labourers). There are customs remaining which seem to indicate that the Holeya people were once masters of the land..

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Uppara in India is the name of a plant defined with Azima tetracantha in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Monetia barlerioides L’Hér. (among others).

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

· Ethnobotanical Leaflets (2008)
· Prodr. (DC.) (1873)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (1894)
· Encycl. (Lamarck) (1783)
· Flore de Madagascar et des Comores (1946)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2007)

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

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Uppara (ಉಪ್ಪರ):—[adjective] very high; tall; lofty.

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Uppara (ಉಪ್ಪರ):—

1) [noun] that which is tall.

2) [noun] the quality of being tall; loftiness; height.

3) [noun] the quality that makes anything excel another; greatness.

4) [noun] ಉಪ್ಪರದ ಸಾಧನೆ [upparada sadhane] upparada sādhane a jumping in the air and touching one’s buttocks with the heals of the legs folded back; ಉಪ್ಪರಮಾಡು [upparamadu] uppara māḍu to raise; to increase the height; ಉಪ್ಪರಂಗಟ್ಟು [upparamgattu] upparaŋgaṭṭu to build high (as a wall, fame etc.); 2. to raise one’s stature; ಉಪ್ಪರಂನೆಗೆ [upparamnege] upparam nege to jump high.

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Uppāra (ಉಪ್ಪಾರ):—

1) [noun] a caste the members of which are usually engaged in manufacture of salt.

2) [noun] a male member of that caste; a salt maker.

3) [noun] a man engaged, by profession, in masonry; a mason.

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Uppāra (ಉಪ್ಪಾರ):—[noun] an offering of food to an idol of a deity.

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Uppāṟa (ಉಪ್ಪಾಱ):—[noun] = ಉಪ್ಪಾರ [uppara]1.

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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)

Starts with: Upparaanti, Upparadamde, Upparadivige, Upparagudi, Upparajavvane, Upparamane, Upparamole, Upparamti, Upparamudi, Upparane, Upparasale, Upparasamca, Upparati, Upparatuppadivige, Upparavatta, Upparavoylu.

Ends with: Avaruppara, Kaluppara, Kuppara, Kuppara, Meluppara, Paruppara, Suppara, Tattuppara.

Full-text: Uppilaka, Uppiga, Upparati, Ashtadasha-jati.

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