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 Plant namejīvaka
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameMalaxis acuminata D.Don - please click to view full record
 Latin name (synonyms)Crepidium acuminatum (D.Don) Szlach., Microstylis wallichii Lindl.
 Sanskrit namejīvaka
 Hindi namejīvak
 Tamil namecīvakam
 Malayalam namejīvakam
 English nameJeevak
 Search occurrencejīvaka, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 423)
jīvaka, mfn. living, alive, Hcar. vii; ifc. (f. ikā) "living" see cira-: making a livelihood by (in comp.) ,MBh. xii f.; Hariv. 4484; Śatr. (cf. akṣara-); "generating" see putraṃ-; ifc. (f. ā) long living, for whom long life is desired, Pāṇ. 3-1, 150; Kāś.; m. a living being, L.; "living on others", a servant, L.; an usurer, L.; a beggar, L.; a snake-catcher, L.; a tree, L.; one of the 8 principal drugs called Ashṭavarga (Terminalia tomentosa, L.; Coccinia grandis, L.), Suśr., VarBṛS.; N. of Kumāra-bhūta, Divyāv. xix, xxxv; (ikā), f. living, manner of living, KaṭhUp.; Mn. (iv, 11; x, 82) &c.; livelihood, x, 76; MBh. &c. (ifc. f. ā, Rājat. vi, 22); the plant Jīvantī, L.; pl. "life-giving element", water, ĀSvSr. vi, 9.


 
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