विशल्य

{ viśalya }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

VIŚALYA II   A medicine. This medicine is used to extricate the arrow-heads that might have stuck on the body. [M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 289, Stanza 6]

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

वि—शल्य    a See s.v.

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वि-शल्य  mfn.  b mfn. pointless (as an arrow), [VS.]

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   freed from an arrow-head, healed of an arrow-wound, [MBh.]; [R.]
   free from thorns or darts, [W.]
आ विशल्य-भावात्   freed from an extraneous substance in the body (, ‘until freed from the embryo’), [Suśr.]

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आ विशल्य भावात्

   freed from pain, [MBh.]
   without trouble or care or pain, [W.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

विशल्य [viśalya]   a.
   Free from trouble or anxiety, secure.
   Free from thorns or darts; विशल्यौ चापि सुग्रीवः क्षणेनैतौ चकार ह । विशल्यया महौषध्या दिव्यमन्त्रप्रयुक्तया ॥ [Mb.3.289.6.] -ल्या N. of several plants: दन्ती, गुडूची, अजमोदा &c.-Comp.
-करण a.  a. healing wounds inflicted by arrows.ी a particular herb with medicinal properties.

Shabda-Sagara

विशल्य  mfn.  ( -ल्यः-ल्या-ल्यं)
   1. Free from thorns or spikes.
   2. Free from care or pain.
  f.  ( -ल्या)
   1. A twining shrub, (Menispermum cordi folium.)
   2. A sort of potherb, (the kind not ascertained.)
   3. A plant, commonly Dantī, (Croton polyandrum.)
   4. Another plant, commonly Teori, (Convolvulus turpethum.)
   5. A sort of fruit, Lāngaliya.
    E. वि privative, and शल्य a stalk or stem.

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