Alternative spellings of this word include Chitranna.

In Hinduism

Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

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

Citrānna (चित्रान्न) refers to “various kinds of odana” (i.e., boiled rice of various colours) 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., citrānna] 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.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

citrānna (चित्रान्न).—n (S citra & anna) A hotchpotch of boiled grain.

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

citrānna (चित्रान्न).—n A hotchpotch of boiled grain.

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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

Citrānna (चित्रान्न).—rice dressed with coloured condiments; Y.1.34.

Derivable forms: citrānnam (चित्रान्नम्).

Citrānna is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms citra and anna (अन्न).

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

Citrānna (चित्रान्न).—n.

(-nnaṃ) Rice dressed with coloured condiments. E. citra and anna food. citraudane . dadhyodanaṃ haviścūrṇaṃ māsiṃ citrānnameva ca .

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

Citrānna (चित्रान्न):—[from citra > cit] n. rice dressed with coloured condiments, [Yājñavalkya i, 303.]

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

Citrānna (चित्रान्न):—[citrā+nna] (nnaṃ) 1. n. Coloured food.

[Sanskrit to German]

Citranna 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Citrānna (ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನ):—

1) [noun] a non-gravy food made by cooking the rice with various condiments, spices, and subsequently seasoned.

2) [noun] a few grains of boiled rice symbolically offered, as part of one’s daily sacrifice, to a few deities before taking one’s mid-day meal.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Citra, Anna.

Ends with: Vicitranna.

Full-text: Citraudana, Cittirannam.

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