The Sanskrit term Śilāvalkā can be transliterated into English as Silavalka or Shilavalka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Śilāvalkā (शिलावल्का) is another name for Śvetaśilā, an unidentified medicinal plant, according to verse 5.43-44 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 Śilāvalkā and Śvetaśilā, there are a total of seven Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant. Note: Śilāvalkā i.e., Śilā means stone and Valka means growth like a tree bark i.e. Pāṣāṇabheda (Śilāvalkāpāṣāṇabheda).

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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

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Śilāvalkā (शिलावल्का).—a kind of moss.

Śilāvalkā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śilā and valkā (वल्का). See also (synonyms): śilāvalkala.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Śīlavalka (शीलवल्क).—Divyāvadāna 632.22, or °valkala, 24, pl., name of a brahmanical school (of the Chandogas).

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

Śilāvalkā (शिलावल्का):—[=śilā-valkā] [from śilā] f. ([cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]) a [particular] medicinal substance.

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

Śilāvalkā (शिलावल्का):—[śilā-valkā] (lkā) 1. f. A medicinal substance, perhaps moss or bark.

[Sanskrit to German]

Shilavalka 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

Śilāvalka (ಶಿಲಾವಲ್ಕ):—[noun] any of various classes (esp. Bryopsida) of very small, green bryophytes having stems with leaflike structures and growing in velvety clusters on rocks; moss.

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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: Shila, Valka, Cila.

Starts with: Shilavalkala.

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Full-text: Shailagarbhahva, Shilatvac, Shilavalkala, Shilaja, Valkala, Shvetashila.

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