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Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Avipriyā (अविप्रिया) is another name for Śvetā an unidentified medicinal plant, according to verse 5.132 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The fifth chapter (parpaṭādi-varga) of this book enumerates sixty varieties of smaller plants (kṣudra-kṣupa). Together with the names Avipriyā and Śvetā, there are a total of four Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.

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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.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Avipriya in India is the name of a plant defined with Echinochloa frumentacea in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Oplismenus frumentaceus (Link) Kunth (among others).

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

· Révision des Graminées (1829)
· Hortus Regius Botanicus Berolinensis (1827)
· Trop. Agric. (1941)
· Flora Indica; or descriptions … (1820)
· Novosti Sistematiki Vysshikh Rastenii (1968)
· Acta Phytoecologia et Geobotanica Sinica (1942)

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

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Avipriya (अविप्रिय).—a kind of grass liked by sheep; Panicum Frumentaceum श्यामा (śyāmā) (Mar. sāvā, bāvaro).

-yā Name of a plant.

Derivable forms: avipriyaḥ (अविप्रियः).

Avipriya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms avi and priya (प्रिय).

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

1) Avipriya (अविप्रिय):—[=avi-priya] [from avi] a m. ‘liked by sheep’, the grass Panicum Frumentaceum, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) Avipriyā (अविप्रिया):—[=avi-priyā] [from avi-priya > avi] f. Name of another plant, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) Avipriya (अविप्रिय):—[=avi-priya] b See avi.

[Sanskrit to German]

Avipriya 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Priya, Avi.

Ends with: Kavipriya, Ravipriya.

Full-text: Shveta.

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