Tanunapat, Tanūnapāt, Tanu-napat: 7 definitions
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In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: archive.org: Shiva Purana - English TranslationTanūnapāt (तनूनपात्) refers to the “sacrificial fire”, as mentioned in the Śivapurāṇa 2.2.27. Accordingly as Brahmā narrated to Nārada:—“[...] once a great sacrifice was started by Dakṣa, [...] In that altar, sacrifice itself was present in its beautiful embodied form. The excellent sages became the holders of the Vedas. The sacrificial fire (tanūnapāt) evinced its diverse forms in a thousand ways, during the sacrificial festivities, in order to receive the sacrificial offerings of Dakṣa”.
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.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryTanūnapāt (तनूनपात्).—m. fire; तनूनपाद्धूमवितानमाधिजैः (tanūnapāddhūmavitānamādhijaiḥ) Śiśupālavadha 1.62; अधःकृतस्यापि तनूनपातो नाधः शिखा याति कदाचिदेव (adhaḥkṛtasyāpi tanūnapāto nādhaḥ śikhā yāti kadācideva) H.2.66. (-n.) ghee.
Tanūnapāt is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms tanū and napāt (नपात्).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryTanūnapāt (तनूनपात्).—[tanū-napāt], m. Fire, or its deity, [Hitopadeśa] ii. [distich] 66 (read -pāto).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryTanūnapāt (तनूनपात्).—[masculine] Agni or the fire (lit. son of one’s own self).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Tanūnapāt (तनूनपात्):—[=tanū-napāt] [from tanū > tan] m. (tanū-) ‘son of himself, self-generated (as in lightning or by the attrition of the Araṇis cf. [Nirukta, by Yāska viii, 5])’, a sacred Name of Fire (chiefly used in some verses of the Āprī hymns), [Ṛg-veda] ([accusative] pātam, [x, 92, 2]), [Atharva-veda v, 27, 1; Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā v, 5] ([dative case] ptre; = [Taittirīya-saṃhitā i, 2, 10, 2]), [Aitareya-brāhmaṇa ii, 4; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa i, 5, 3; iii] ([genitive case] ptur, 4, 2, 5 [irregular] [nominative case] ptā [only etymological cf. 4, 2, 5] 4, 2, 11), [Hitopadeśa]
2) [v.s. ...] fire (in general), [Harṣacarita]
3) [v.s. ...] Name of Śiva
4) [v.s. ...] Plumbago zeylanica, [Horace H. Wilson]
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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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Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)
Satapatha-brahmana (by Julius Eggeling)
Kāṇḍa III, adhyāya 4, brāhmaṇa 2 < [Third Kāṇḍa]
Kāṇḍa I, adhyāya 5, brāhmaṇa 4 < [First Kāṇḍa]
Kāṇḍa I, adhyāya 5, brāhmaṇa 3 < [First Kāṇḍa]
Bharadvaja-srauta-sutra (by C. G. Kashikar)
The Agnistoma Somayaga in the Shukla Yajurveda (by Madan Haloi)
Part 5.6: The concluding bath (avabhṛtheṣṭi) < [Chapter 4 - The Agniṣṭoma Ritual]
Mimamsa interpretation of Vedic Injunctions (Vidhi) (by Shreebas Debnath)
Vedic influence on the Sun-worship in the Puranas (by Goswami Mitali)
Part 9 - Number and Classification of the Vedic Gods < [Chapter 1 - Vedic Concept of God and Religion]