Saṁs- kāras

अन्नम् [अद्-क्त; अनित्यनेन, अन्-नन्; according to Yāska from अद्, अद्यते अत्ति च भूतानि; or from आ-नम्, आ आभि मुख्येन ह्येतन्नतं प्रह्वीभूतं भवति भोजनाय भूतानाम्]

1 Food (in general); अद्यते$त्ति च भूतानि तस्मादन्नं तदुच्यते Tait. Up.; मदो$सृङ्मांसमज्जास्थि वदन्त्यन्नं मनीषिणः Ms.3.8.182; अहमन्नं भवान् भोक्ता H.1.51. I am your prey &c.; चराणामन्नमचराः Ms.5.29.

-2 Food as representing the lowest form in which the Supreme Soul is manifested, being the coarsest and last of the 5 vestures (कोश) in which the soul is clothed and passes from body to body in the long process of metempsychosis - "the nutrimentitious vesture or visible body in the world of sense" (स्थूल- शरीर called अन्नमयकोश).

-3 Boiled rice; अन्नेन व्यञ्जनम् P. II.1.34.

-4 Corn (bread corn); ता (आपः) अन्नम- सृजन्त तस्माद्यत्र क्व च वर्षति तदेव भूयिष्ठमन्नं भवति Ch. Up. 6.2.4.; आदित्याज्जायते वृष्टिर्वृष्टेरन्नं ततः प्रजाः Ms.3.76; कृत˚ 9.219;1.86,12.65.

-5 Water.

-6 Earth (पृथिव्या अन्नहेतुत्वादन्नशब्दवाच्यता).

-7 N. of Viṣṇu.

-न्नः The sun (स हि अन्नहेतुवृष्टिहेतुः).

-Comp. -अकालः = अनाकाल q. v.

-अत्तृ, -आदिन्, -आहारिन् eating food.

-अद a. eating food.

-2 having a good appetite (दीप्ताग्नि).

(-दः) N. of Viṣṇu.

-अद्यम् proper food, food in general; कुर्यादहरहः श्राद्धमन्नाद्येनोदकेन वा Ms.3.82,4.112, 11.144. अन्नाद्येन प्रजापतिः (तृप्तः) Mb.3.2.68.

-आच्छा- दनम्, -वस्त्रम् food and clothing, food and raiment, the bare necessaries of life.

-आयुः (अन्नायु) consisting of, living by, food; desirous of food (अन्नबन्धनः, अन्नजीवनः).

-काम a. desirous of food; स इद्भोजो यो गृहवे ददात्यन्नकामाय Rv.1.117.3.

-कालः hour of dinner; meal-time.

-किट्टः = ˚मल q. v.

-कूटः a large heap of boiled rice.

-कोष्ठकः 1 a cupboard; granary.

-2 Viṣṇu.

-3 the sun.

-गतिः f. the passage of food, gullet (cf. बहिः- स्रोतस्).

-गन्धिः dysentery, diarrhoea.

-ज, जात a. produced from food as the primitive substance.

-जम् rice-gruel of three days.

-जा f. a hickup.

-जलम् food and water, bare subsistence.

-तेजस् a. having the vigour caused by food.

-द, -दातृ, -दायिन्, -प्रद a.

1 giving food. वारिदस्तृप्तिमाप्नोति सुखमक्षय्यमन्नदः Ms.4.229.

-2 epithet of Śiva.

-दा N. of Durgā or Annapūrṇā.

-दासः [अन्नेन पालितो दासः शाक. त.] a servant who works for food only, one who becomes a servant or slave by getting food only.

-देवता the deity supposed to preside over articles of food.

-दोषः 1 sin arising from eating prohibited food; Ms.5.4.

-2 a defect in the food eaten; derangement of food or the humours of the body; आलस्यादन्नदोषाच्च मृत्युर्विप्राञ् जिघांसति Ms.5.4.

-द्वेषः dislike of food, loss of appetite.

-पतिः lord or possessor of food, epithet of Savitṛ, Agni, and Śiva. अन्नपते$न्नस्य नो देहि Tait. Saṁ.11.83;34.58.

-पाकः cooking of food; digestion of food; (by the fire in the stomach).

-पू a. purifying food, epithet of the Sun.

-पूर्ण a. filled with, possessed of, food. (

-र्णा) a form of Durgā (the goddess of plenty); ˚ईश्वरी N. of Durgā or a form of Bhairavī.

-पेयम् = वाज- पेयम् q. v.

-प्रलय a. being dissolved into food after death.

-प्राशः, प्राशनम् the ceremony of giving a new-born child food to eat for the first time, one of the 16 Saṁs- kāras performed between the 5th and 8th month (usually in the sixth, Ms.2.34) with preliminary obla- tions to fire (Mar.उष्टावण); षष्ठे$न्नप्राशन मासि Ms.2.34; Y.1.12.

-ब्रह्मन्, -आत्मन् m. Brahman as represented by food.

-भक्त a. [अन्नार्थं भक्तः दासः] = अन्नदास q. v.

-भुज् a. eating food, epithet of Śiva.

-मय a. see below.

-मलम् 1 excrement, faeces; P.VI.1.148 Sk.

-2 spirituous liquor; सुरा वै मलमन्नानाम् Ms.11.93.

-रक्षा precautions as to eating food.

-रसः essence of food, chyle; food and drink, nutriment; नानाविधानन्नरसान् वन्यमूलफलाश्रयान् । तेभ्यो ददौ Rām.

-वत् a. possessed of food; अन्नवान्त्सन् रफितायोपज- ग्मुषे Rv.1.117.2.

-वस्त्रम् = ˚आच्छादनम् q. v.

-विकारः. 1 transformation of food, assimilation.

-2 disorder of the stomach caused by indigestion.

-3 seminal discharge (of man); semen itself; cf. अन्नाद्रेतः संभवति.

-विद् a. acquiring food; कार्षीवणा अन्नविदो न विद्यया Av.6.116.1.

-व्यवहारः the law or custom relating to food; i. e. the custom of eating together or not with other persons.

-शेषः leavings of food, offal.

-संस्कारः consecration of food.

-होमः a sacrifice (with 1 materials) connected with the Aśvamedha sacrifice.