The Sanskrit term Yakṣadhūpa can be transliterated into English as Yaksadhupa or Yakshadhupa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Yakshadhupa in India is the name of a plant defined with Boswellia serrata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Boswellia serrata Roxb. ex Colebr. (among others).

2) Yakshadhupa is also identified with Chloroxylon dupada.

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

· Agents Actions (1988)
· The India Journal of Experimental Biology (IJEB)
· Agents Actions (1986)
· Phytochem. Anal. (2001)
· Planta Medica (2001)
· Phytomedicine (2003)

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

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

yakṣadhūpa (यक्षधूप).—m S Resin in general.

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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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Yakṣadhūpa (यक्षधूप).—resin, incense.

Derivable forms: yakṣadhūpaḥ (यक्षधूपः).

Yakṣadhūpa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms yakṣa and dhūpa (धूप).

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

Yakṣadhūpa (यक्षधूप).—m.

(-paḥ) 1. Resin in general. 2. Turpentine, the resinous exudation of the pine. E. yakṣa the demi-god, dhūpa perfume or incense, aṇ aff. “sarjjarase” dhunā iti māṣā .

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

Yakṣadhūpa (यक्षधूप).—[masculine] kinds of ointment or perfume.

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

1) Yakṣadhūpa (यक्षधूप):—[=yakṣa-dhūpa] [from yakṣa > yakṣ] m. a [particular] incense, [Hemādri’s Caturvarga-cintāmaṇi]

2) [v.s. ...] the resin of Shorea Robusta, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) [v.s. ...] resin in general, [Horace H. Wilson] (also paka, [Demetrius Galanos’s Lexiko: sanskritikes, anglikes, hellenikes])

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

Yakṣadhūpa (यक्षधूप):—[yakṣa-dhūpa] (paḥ) 1. m. Resin; turpentine.

[Sanskrit to German]

Yakshadhupa 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

Yakṣadhūpa (ಯಕ್ಷಧೂಪ):—[noun] a kind of frankincense used in perfumes and as incense.

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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: Yaksha, Dhupa.

Full-text: Yakshakardama.

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