Kritanna, Kṛtānna, Krita-anna: 10 definitions

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Kritanna means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

The Sanskrit term Kṛtānna can be transliterated into English as Krtanna or Kritanna, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Dietetics and Culinary Art (such as household cooking)

Source: Shodhganga: Dietetics and culinary art in ancient and medieval India

Kṛtānna (कृतान्न) or Kṛtānnavarga is the name of a subsection of the Annapānavidhi of the Sūtrasthāna of the Suśrutasaṃhitā, an important Ayurvedic treatise. The discourses of the teacher Divodasa are believed to be summarised by his disciple Suśruta, who wrote the work Suśrutasaṃhitā in 4th century CE. [...] Kṛtānna-varga, the subsection of Annapānavidhi describes the preparations and properties of different types of gruels like peya, vilepi, maṇḍa, pāyasa, mudgayūṣa and kṛsara, meat dishes like ullupta, vesavāra, etc. The chapter Annapānavidhi also discusses the rules on taking food, the place of dishes to be served in a plate or leaf and the vessels that can be used.

Ayurveda book cover
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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.

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Dharmashastra (religious law)

Source: Google Books: Manusmṛti with the Manubhāṣya

Kṛtānna (कृतान्न) refers to “cooked food” according to the Manusmṛti verse 10.94.—“savoury articles should be bartered for savoury articles, but never salt for another savoury article,—cooked food (kṛtānna), for cooked food, and sesamum for corn, in equal quantities”.

Note: Kṛtānna (‘cooked food’)—such as fried flour, cooked rice and so forth—should be bartered for other kinds of “cooked food”—cakes and the like. Mitākṣarā (3.39) adds the following notes:—“Kṛtānna” is cooked food, and this should be exchanged with cooked food; it notes the. reading “Kṛtānnañcākṛtannena”, and explains it as “cooked food should be exchanged for uncooked rice and other grains”.

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Dharmashastra (धर्मशास्त्र, dharmaśāstra) contains the instructions (shastra) regarding religious conduct of livelihood (dharma), ceremonies, jurisprudence (study of law) and more. It is categorized as smriti, an important and authoritative selection of books dealing with the Hindu lifestyle.

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Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

kṛtānna (कृतान्न).—n S Dressed victuals, esp. boiled rice.

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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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kṛtānna (कृतान्न).—

1) cooked food. कृतान्नमुदकं स्त्रियः (kṛtānnamudakaṃ striyaḥ) Manusmṛti 9.219;11.3.

2) digested food.

3) excrement.

Derivable forms: kṛtānnam (कृतान्नम्).

Kṛtānna is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kṛta and anna (अन्न).

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

Kṛtānna (कृतान्न).—n. dressed food, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 9, 213.

Kṛtānna is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kṛta and anna (अन्न).

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

Kṛtānna (कृतान्न).—[neuter] prepared or cooked food.

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

1) Kṛtānna (कृतान्न):—[from kṛta > kṛ] n. prepared or cooked food, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa xiii; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Lāṭyāyana; Manu-smṛti; Suśruta]

2) [v.s. ...] digested food, excrement

3) [v.s. ...] mfn. eating, [Horace H. Wilson]

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

Kṛtānna (कृतान्न):—[kṛtā+nna] (nnaḥ-nnā-nnaṃ) a. Eating.

[Sanskrit to German]

Kritanna 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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