The Sanskrit term Devamātṛka can be transliterated into English as Devamatrka or Devamatrika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Devamātṛka (देवमातृक) refers to “land full of rains, etc.”, as defined in the second chapter (dharaṇyādi-varga) of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu (an Ayurvedic encyclopedia). Accordingly, “a land full of rivers, lotuses and grains is called nadī-mātṛka, while a region rich with rains and lotuses is known as deva-mātṛka”.

Unclassified Ayurveda definitions

Source: Knowledge Traditions & Practices of India: Agriculture: A Survey

Devamātṛka (देवमातृक, “rain-watered”) refers to one of the twelve types of lands mentioned in the Amarakoṣa and classified according to fertility of the soil, irrigation and physical characteristics. Agriculture (kṛṣi) is frequently mentioned in India’s ancient literature.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

dēvamātṛka (देवमातृक).—a (S) Fertilized by rains; depending on the heavens (See Deut. xi. 11.)--a country: opp. to nadīmātṛka or jalamātṛka Fertilized by rivers or watercourses.

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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

Devamātṛka (देवमातृक).—a. 'having the god of rain or clouds as foster-mother', watered only by the clouds, depending on rain-water and not on irrigation, deprived of every other kind of water (as a country); देशो नद्यम्बुवृष्ट्यम्बु- संपन्नव्रीहिपालितः । स्यान्नदीमातृको देवमातृकश्च यथाक्रमम् (deśo nadyambuvṛṣṭyambu- saṃpannavrīhipālitaḥ | syānnadīmātṛko devamātṛkaśca yathākramam) || Ak.; cf. also वितन्वति क्षेममदेवमातृकाः (vitanvati kṣemamadevamātṛkāḥ) (i. e. nadīmātṛkāḥ) चिराय तस्मिन् कुरवश्चकासते (cirāya tasmin kuravaścakāsate) Kirātārjunīya 1. 17.

Devamātṛka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms deva and mātṛka (मातृक).

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

Devamātṛka (देवमातृक).—mfn.

(-kaḥ-kā-kī-kaṃ) Watered by rain, (corn, land, &c.) E. deva a cloud, mātṛ a mother, and kap affix; cherished by the clouds as by a parent.

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

Devamātṛka (देवमातृक):—[=deva-mātṛka] [from deva] mfn. ‘having the god (Indra) or clouds as foster-mother’, moistened only by rain-water (as corn, land), [Mahābhārata ii, 211; Rāmāyaṇa ii, 109, 23] (cf. nadī-).

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

Devamātṛka (देवमातृक):—[deva-mātṛka] (kaḥ-kā-kaṃ) a. Watered by rain (corn, land, &c.)

[Sanskrit to German]

Devamatrika 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

Dēvamātṛka (ದೇವಮಾತೃಕ):—[noun] = ದೇವಮಾತೃಕೆ [devamatrike].

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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: Matrika, Deva, Teva.

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Full-text: Dvaimatrika, Nadimatrika, Vrishtijivana, Adevamatrika, Tevamaturukam, Matrika.

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