मांसौदन

Dvandva compound of मांस (māṃsa, “flesh, meat”) +‎ ओदन (odana, “boiled rice”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɑ̃ː.sɑːw.dɐ́.nɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /mɑ̃ːˈs̪ɑw.d̪ɐ.n̪ɐ/

मांसौदन • (māṃsaudana) stem, m

1. a dish of rice boiled with meat
   • c. 700 BCE, Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 6.4.18:

     अथ य इच्छेत्पुत्रो मे पण्डितो विगीतः समितिंगमः शुश्रूषितां वाचं भाषिता जायेत सर्वान्वेदाननुब्रुवीत सर्वमायुरियादिति मांसौदनं पाचयित्वा सर्पिष्मन्तमश्नीयातामीश्वरौ जनयितवा औक्षेण वार्षभेण वा ॥

     atha ya icchetputro me paṇḍito vigītaḥ samitiṃgamaḥ śuśrūṣitāṃ vācaṃ bhāṣitā jāyeta sarvānvedānanubruvīta sarvamāyuriyāditi māṃsaudanaṃ pācayitvā sarpiṣmantamaśnīyātāmīśvarau janayitavā aukṣeṇa vārṣabheṇa vā.

     If a man wishes that a son should be born to him who will be a famous scholar, frequenting assemblies and speaking delightful words, a student of all the Vedas and an enjoyer of the full term of life, he should have rice cooked with the meat of an ox or a bull and he and his wife should eat it with clarified butter. Then they should be able to beget such a son.

• Monier Williams (1899) “मांसौदन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 805.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “मांस”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 1256