Pretanna, Preta-anna, Pretānna: 7 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryPretānna (प्रेतान्न).—food offered to the manes.
Derivable forms: pretānnam (प्रेतान्नम्).
Pretānna is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms preta and anna (अन्न).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryPretānna (प्रेतान्न).—n.
(-nnaṃ) Food offered to the manes or distributed on a person’s death. E. preta and anna food.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryPretānna (प्रेतान्न).—[neuter] the food destined for the dead.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPretānna (प्रेतान्न):—[from preta > pre] n. food offered to a dead person, [Manu-smṛti; Āpastamba]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryPretānna (प्रेतान्न):—[pretā+nna] (nnaṃ) 1. n. Funeral cake.
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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.
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Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 4.217 < [Section XIV - Other Duties]
Verse 5.90 < [Section IX - Other forms of Impurity]
Verse 3.248 < [Section XIV - Method of Feeding]
The Bhagavata Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Chapter 4 - Salvation to a Brāhmaṇa—Ātmadeva < [Bhāgavata-Māhātmya: The Glory of Bhāgavata Purāṇa]