Trailata, Trailāṭā: 5 definitions
Introduction:
Trailata means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. 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.
In Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on AgricultureTrailāṭa (त्रैलाट) [=trailāṭaka?] refers to “horse flies” (responsible for crop-destruction, etc.), according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, [As the Bhagavān teaches an offering manual]: “Having enchanted sand twenty-one times it should be scattered on all crops, flowers, fruits, leaves and trees. All pests fall down and perish. All snails, horse flies (trailāṭaka), venomous snakes, centipedes and other pests of various kinds will be destroyed. Until the stake is drawn out they will not appear”.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryTrailāṭā (त्रैलाटा).—(so text, also Mironov with v.l. °ṭāka; Kyōtō ed. Index with [Boehtlingk and Roth] °ṭa; compare prec.), a kind of fly: Mahāvyutpatti 4861; °ṭāḥ, pl., Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iv.74.22.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryTrailāṭa (त्रैलाट):—[from traiṃśa] a sort of horse-fly, [Buddhist literature; cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
[Sanskrit to German]
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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