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n. (context botany English) the entire plant kingdom or trees that bear fruits but no evident flowers.
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Vanaspati ( Devanagari: ) is the Sanskrit word that now refers to the entire plant kingdom. However, according to Charaka Samhitā and Sushruta Samhita medical texts and the Vaisesikas school of philosophy, "vanaspati" is limited to plants that bear fruits but no evident flowers. In the Rigveda, 9th Mandala, Hymn 1.5, "Vanaspati" (literally meaning: Lord of the Forest) is a deity presiding over the forest and described as the "bright golden hued Vanaspati, with its thousand branches."
Vanaspati (meaning the lord of the forest) is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 4th melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgams of Carnatic music, following the Katapayadi sankhya system. In the Muthuswami Dikshitar school of music, this raga is called Bhānumati.
Vanaspati ( Devanāgari: , Sanskrit for "lord of the forest") is primarily a term for a large fruit-bearing tree, especially a fig-tree. It may also refer to:
- the plant kingdom in general, see Vanaspati
- a sacrificial post in Vedic ritual, see historical Vedic religion
- a name of Soma
- a name of Kīrtimukha
- a Carnatic raga, see Vanaspati (Raga)
- vanaspati ghee, a type of shortening or hydrogenated vegetable fat
Usage examples of "vanaspati".
It was then‑unless it was another day‑that we found old Resham Bibi dead of cold, lying in her hut which she had built out of Dalda Vanaspati packing‑cases.
Picture Singh had provided me with a spittoon‑surrogate, an empty Dalda Vanaspati can, but although I used this to entertain my son with my expertise in the gentle art of spittoon‑hittery, sending long jets of betel‑juice across the grimy air of the magicians' colony, I was not consoled.