The Sanskrit term Tṛṇajāti can be transliterated into English as Trnajati or Trinajati, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: archive.org: Shiva Purana - English Translation

Tṛṇajāti (तृणजाति) refers to “grasses” (of which the most important is mentioned as Kuśa grass), according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.5.2 (“The Prayer of the gods).—Accordingly, as the Gods eulogized Śiva: “[...] Among sacrifices you are the horse-sacrifice. Among the Yugas you are the Kṛta Yuga; among the asterisms you are Puṣya; among the Tithis you are Amāvāsyā. Among the seasons you are the spring; among holy occasions you are the Saṃkrama; among grasses (tṛṇajāti) you are the Kuśa grass; among gross trees you are the Banyan tree. [...]”.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

tṛṇajāti (तृणजाति).—f S The vegetable kingdom.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

tṛṇajāti (तृणजाति).—f The vegetable kingdom.

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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.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Tṛṇajāti (तृणजाति).—f. grass-kind, the vegetable kingdom; Manusmṛti 1 48.

Derivable forms: tṛṇajātiḥ (तृणजातिः).

Tṛṇajāti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms tṛṇa and jāti (जाति).

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

Tṛṇajāti (तृणजाति).—m.

(-tiḥ) The vegetable kingdom. E. tṛṇa, and jāti genus.

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

Tṛṇajāti (तृणजाति):—[=tṛṇa-jāti] [from tṛṇa] f. [plural] the different kinds of grass, [Manu-smṛti i, 48.]

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

Tṛṇajāti (तृणजाति):—[tṛṇa-jāti] (tiḥ) 2. m. The vegetable kingdom, or world.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Trina, Jati.

Full-text: Stirvi, Kusha, Kshirika.

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