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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Yavasura (यवसुर).—malt-liquor, beer.

Derivable forms: yavasuram (यवसुरम्).

Yavasura is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms yava and sura (सुर).

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

Yavasura (यवसुर).—n.

(-raṃ) Spirituous or fermented liquor distilled from barley, malt-liquor, beer. E. yava barley, surā wine, ṣa aff. in the neuter gender; also yavasurā the second member being unchanged.

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

Yavasurā (यवसुरा):—[=yava-surā] [from yava] f. an intoxicating drink prepared from b°-meal, [Madanavinoda]

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

Yavasura (यवसुर):—[yava-sura] (raṃ) 1. m. A fermented liquor distilled from barley.

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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.

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Partial matches: Yava, Sura.

Full-text: Annavikara.

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Sushruta Samhita, volume 1: Sutrasthana (by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna)

Chapter XLV - Knowledge of liquid substances

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