Vallura, Vallūra: 13 definitions
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In Hinduism
Dharmashastra (religious law)
Vallūra (वल्लूर) is a Sanskrit word referring to “dry fish”. The word is used throughout Dharmaśāstra literature such as the Manusmṛti. (also see the Manubhāṣya verse 5.13)

Dharmashastra (धर्मशास्त्र, dharmaśāstra) contains the instructions (shastra) regarding religious conduct of livelihood (dharma), ceremonies, jurisprudence (study of law) and more. It is categorized as smriti, an important and authoritative selection of books dealing with the Hindu lifestyle.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
vallūra : (nt.) dried flesh.
Vallura, (nt.) (cp. Class. Sk. vallūra) dried flesh S. II, 98; J. II, 245. (Page 603)
vallūra (ဝလ္လူရ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[valla+uīra.vallativallabhabhāvena bhavatīti vallūro,vallati aññamaññaṃ bandhatīti vā vallūro.ka.67va.rū.68va.nīti,sutta.1316.nīti,dhātu 166.vallīyati saṃvarīyatīti vallūro.ṇvādi.171.ṭī.279-8va.vallūra-saṃ.]
[ဝလ္လ+ဦရ။ ဝလ္လတိဝလ္လဘဘာဝေန ဘဝတီတိ ဝလ္လူရော၊ ဝလ္လတိ အညမညံ ဗန္ဓတီတိ ဝါ ဝလ္လူရော။ ကစ္စည်း။ ၆၇ဝ။ ရူ။၆၈ဝ။ နီတိ၊ သုတ္တ။ ၁၃၁၆။ နီတိ၊ဓာတု ၁၆၆။ ဝလ္လီယတိ သံဝရီယတီတိ ဝလ္လူရော။ ဏွာဒိ။ ၁၇၁။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၂၇၉-၈ဝ။ ဝလ္လူရ-သံ။]
[Pali to Burmese]
vallūra—
(Burmese text): အမဲညှင်း၊ သားညှင်း၊ အမဲ-အသား-ခြောက်။
(Auto-Translation): Black goat, male goat, meat-offal-cooked.

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
Vallūra (वल्लूर).—[vall-uran]
1) A bower, an arbour.
2) A place overgrown with creepers, wood, thicket.
3) A branching foot-stalk.
4) An uncultivated field.
5) A desert, wild, wilderness.
6) Dried flesh.
Derivable forms: vallūram (वल्लूरम्).
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Vallūra (वल्लूर).—[vall-ūran] Uṇādi-sūtra 4.96]
1) Dried flesh; Kau. A.1.4; Manusmṛti 5.13.
2) The flesh of the (wild) hog.
-ram 1 A thicket.
2) A desert, wilderness.
3) An uncultivated field.
4) Ground impregnated with salt.
Derivable forms: vallūraḥ (वल्लूरः).
Vallura (वल्लुर).—n.
(-raṃ) 1. An arbour, a bower, a place over-grown with creeping plants. 2. An uncultivated field or place over-run with wild grass. 3. A sand, a desert, a place destitute of water. 4. A field. 5. A compound pedicle. 6. A solitude, a wild. 7. A thicket, a wood. 8. Dried flesh. E. vall to cover, uran aff.; also vallūra .
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Vallūra (वल्लूर).—mfn.
(-raḥ-rā-raṃ) 1. Dried flesh. 2. Hog's flesh, the flesh of the wild hog. n.
(-raṃ) 1. An uncultivated field, or one over run with grass. 2. A thicket. 3. A desert. E. vall to cover, ūran Unadi aff.
Vallura (वल्लुर).—n. 1. A thicket, a wood. 2. An arbour, a bower. 3. A place overrun with wild grass, an uncultivated field. 4. A solitude, a wild. 5. A place destitute of water, a desert. 6. A field. 7. A compound pedicle.
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Vallūra (वल्लूर).—I. (m., f. rā, and) n. 1. Dried flesh, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 5, 13. 2. Hog's flesh. Ii. n. (cf. the last). 1. A thicket. 2. A field overrun with grass. 3. A desert.
Vallūra (वल्लूर).—[neuter] dried flesh.
1) Vallura (वल्लुर):—[from vall] n. (only [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]) an arbour, bower
2) [v.s. ...] a field
3) [v.s. ...] a thicket or wilderness
4) [v.s. ...] a place destitute of water
5) [v.s. ...] a cluster of blossoms
6) [v.s. ...] a compound pedicle.
7) Vallūra (वल्लूर):—[from vall] n. ([cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] also m. and f(ā). ) dried flesh, [Manu-smṛti; Yājñavalkya; Suśruta]
8) [v.s. ...] hog’s flesh, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
9) [v.s. ...] m. (only [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]) an uncultivated field
10) [v.s. ...] a desert
11) [v.s. ...] a thicket
12) [v.s. ...] = nakṣatra, white water.
13) [v.s. ...] Name of a clan of Brāhmans, [Inscriptions]
1) Vallura (वल्लुर):—(raṃ) 1. n. An arbour; uncultivated field; a desert; a field.
2) Vallūra (वल्लूर):—[(raḥ-rā-raṃ)] 1. n. Idem. m. f. n. Dried flesh; hog’s flesh.
Vallura (वल्लुर):—n. = śādvala und kṣetra (kṣatra in [Medinīkoṣa] gedr.) [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 598.] [Medinīkoṣa r. 212.] = kuñja, mañjarī und anambhas [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] = gahana und auṣadha [Medinīkoṣa] Nach [Śabdakalpadruma] sollen [VIŚVA], [DHARA.] und [Śabdaratnāvalī] vallara n. lesen. — Vgl. vallūra .
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Vallūra (वल्लूर):—[UJJVAL.] zu [Uṇādisūtra 4, 90.] m. f. n. [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 5, 22.] getrocknetes Fleisch, m. f. (ā) und n. [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 2, 14.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 370.] [Medinīkoṣa r. 212.] n. [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 624.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 598. fg.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 5, 13.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 175.] [Suśruta 1, 41, 16. 70, 6. 103, 14. 2, 233, 11. 457, 15.] Nach den Lexicographen ausserdem noch: Schweinefleisch, m. f. n. [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] [Medinīkoṣa Nalopākhyāna] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] n. = vanakṣetra, vāhana und ūṣara [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] = nakṣatra, gahana und uścara (sic) [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] — Vgl. vallura .
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
Vallūra (ವಲ್ಲೂರ):—
1) [noun] dried meat.
2) [noun] a bush; a shrub.
3) [noun] a dry, barren, sandy region, naturally incapable of supporting almost any life; a desert.
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 (+0): Valluragriha, Valluraka, Vallurakarana, Valluram, Vallurasamanna, Valluravikkaya.
Full-text (+0): Valluravikkaya, Vallurasamanna, Vallurakarana, Bhuvallura, Valluram, Vallara, Svalpa, Vakataka, Valli, Fu.
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Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)
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An observational study on etiopathogenesis of yauvana pidaka (acne vulgaris) < [2023, Issue 10. October]
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