In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Rasashastra (Alchemy and Herbo-Mineral preparations)

Source: Wisdom Library: Rasa-śāstra

Vaidyarāja (वैद्यराज) or Vaidyarājarasa is the name of an Ayurvedic recipe defined in the fifth volume of the Rasajalanidhi (chapter 2, Rajayakshma: phthisis). These remedies are classified as Iatrochemistry and form part of the ancient Indian science known as Rasaśāstra (medical alchemy). However, since it is an ayurveda treatment it should be taken with caution and in accordance with rules laid down in the texts.

Accordingly, when using such recipes (e.g., vaidyarāja-rasa): “the minerals (uparasa), poisons (viṣa), and other drugs (except herbs), referred to as ingredients of medicines, are to be duly purified and incinerated, as the case may be, in accordance with the processes laid out in the texts.” (see introduction to Iatro chemical medicines)

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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.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Vaidyarāja (वैद्यराज) refers to the “king of physicians”, according to  the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter 1.—Accordingly: “All beings are afflicted by the sicknesses of the fetters. In the course of beginningless transmigration, never has anyone been able to cure these sicknesses that are misunderstood by the bad heretical teachers.—[The Buddha says to beings]—‘Today I have appeared in the world as the great king of physicians (mahā-vaidyarāja); I have compounded the medicine of the Dharma and you should take it’. This is why the Buddha preaches the Mahāprajñāpāramitāsūtra”.

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

1) Vaidyarāja (वैद्यराज) refers to the “king of doctors”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “Then the Bodhisattva Gaganagañja, having praised the Lord with these verses, addressed himself to the Lord: ‘[...] The Lord, having become the king of doctors (vaidyarāja), establishes the way into the state without disease (vyādhi) or death (maraṇa) for [living beings] who are involved with this world covered with desire, defilement, and obstruction from beginningless until endless time. The Lord, having had power and vitality, is skilled in the knowledge if what is proper and what is improper, and has obtained the three knowledges. [...]”.

2) Vaidyarāja (वैद्यराज) is the name of a Bodhisattva, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā.—Accordingly: “Then the Bodhisattva Vaidyarāja addressed himself to the Bodhisattva Gaganagañja: ‘Son of good family, there are patients suffering from many diseases without nurse. For the sake of them, please pour down the rain of great medicine by which all the sick get free from sickness!’ Immediately after that, the rain of ambrosia poured down from the sky, and all the sick were free from all diseases.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

vaidyarāja (वैद्यराज).—m (S King of physicians.) A title or honorable appellation of physicians.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

vaidyarāja (वैद्यराज).—m A title of physicians.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Vaidyarāja (वैद्यराज).—name of a future Buddha: Gaṇḍavyūha 358.14.

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

Vaidyarāja (वैद्यराज).—[masculine] king of physicians, [Epithet] of Dhanvantari.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Vaidyarāja (वैद्यराज) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—father of Śārṅgadhara (Vaidyavallabha). Oxf. 318^b.

Vaidyarāja has the following synonyms: Devarāja.

2) Vaidyarāja (वैद्यराज):—Rasakaṣāya. Rasapradīpa. Vaidyamahodadhi.

3) Vaidyarāja (वैद्यराज):—son of Viśārada, son of Vaidyacintāmaṇi, son of Vaidyavācaspati, son of Yadunātha. He was a nephew of Ratnamaṇi. See Catal. Io. p. 942: Sukhabodha med. composed in 1568.

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

1) Vaidyarāja (वैद्यराज):—[=vaidya-rāja] [from vaidya] m. ‘id.’, Name of Dhanvantari, [Rāmāyaṇa]

2) [v.s. ...] of the father of Śārṅga-dhara, [Catalogue(s)]

3) [v.s. ...] of an author, [ib.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Vaidyaraja 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Vaidyarāja (ವೈದ್ಯರಾಜ):—

1) [noun] an excellent, proficient medical doctor.

2) [noun] Dhanvantari, the celestial physician.

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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)

Partial matches: Vaidya, Raja.

Starts with: Vaidyarajarasa, Vaidyarajatantra.

Ends with: Ramakrishna vaidyaraja.

Full-text (+21): Vaidyarajatantra, Rasakashaya, Vaidyamahodadhi, Kanakasimhaprakasha, Kesava, Rasaprayoga, Sukhabodha, Saralatika, Sarvaushadhi, Ramakrishna vaidyaraja, Ramakrishna, Rasakalika, Yadunatha, Ramapradipa, Pramocaka, Jivaka, Rasadipika, Visarada, Thokana, Rasendrakalpadruma.

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

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