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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Google Books: Cultural History from the Vāyu Purāna

Guḍaudana (गुडौदन)—One of the food-preparations, according to the Vāyu Purāṇa. Mentioned in connection with Piśācas.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)

Source: Wisdom Library: Nāṭya-śāstra

Guḍaudana (गुडौदन) is a Sanskrit word referring to boiled rice and coarse sugar. During the ceremony of “laying the foundation” of the playhouse (nāṭyamaṇḍapa), this guḍaudana should be offered to the masters of dramatic art, according to the Nāṭyaśāstra 2.41-42.

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Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, nāṭyaśāstra) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (shastra) of performing arts, (natya—theatrics, drama, dance, music), as well as the name of a Sanskrit work dealing with these subjects. It also teaches the rules for composing Dramatic plays (nataka), construction and performance of Theater, and Poetic works (kavya).

Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Google Books: Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences (Astronomy)

Guḍaudana (गुडौदन) refers to “rice mixed with raw sugar” and represents one of the items offered to the nine planets (navagraha), according to the grahaśānti (cf. grahayajña) section of the Yājñavalkyasmṛti (1.295-309), preceded by the section called vināyakakalpa (1.271-294), prescribing a rite to be offered to Vināyaka.—[verse 302-303: Faggots to be burned]—These two verses prescribe different faggots [i.e., guḍaudana] to be burned for grahas with offerings of honey, ghee, dadhi, and milk. It is interesting to note that some of the faggots (i.e. parāśa, khadira, pippala, and śamī) mentioned here are also used in the Suśrutasaṃhitā in the context (Uttaratantra chapters 27-37) of curing the diseases caused by grahas, which, in this case, are not planetary. [verse 304-305: Cooked rice (odana) to be offered to grahas]

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Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Guḍaudana (गुडौदन).—n.

(-naṃ) Boiled rice and coarse sugar. E. guḍa, and odana rice.

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

Guḍaudana (गुडौदन).—boiled rice with sugar, Mahābhārata 13, 6162.

Guḍaudana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms guḍa and odana (ओदन).

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

Guḍaudana (गुडौदन).—[neuter] boiled rice with sugar.

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

Guḍaudana (गुडौदन):—[from guḍa] n. boiled rice and coarse sugar, [Yājñavalkya i, 303.]

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

Guḍaudana (गुडौदन):—[guḍau-dana] (naṃ) 1. n. Rice and sugar.

[Sanskrit to German]

Gudaudana 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.

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Partial matches: Odana, Guda, Dana, Tana.

Full-text: Gudodana, Guda.

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