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Food Sciences : 505
Beans Vana Mūnga
Tila
1 2
3 21. Anuka beans Anuka beans - 22.
Kaloya beans [C] Fatty Cereals 23. Tila
Tila 24. Linseed Linseed 25. - 26. Tripuda Tripuda [D] Miscelleneous 27. Sugar Cane Sugar Cane 28. Corriander Corriander
Mustard
Table 3b : Potables ( Pānakas ). SGDT
BA
Peyas
1. Ghana ( Curd etc.) Lemon Juice Pāna ( Alcohols ) 2. Fluids ( Tarala ) Fruit Juice Pānaka (Fruit Juice ) 3. Licky (Lepi ) Lepi ( Curd ) Pāniya ( Water ) 4. Non-licky
Alepi 5. Sa-siktha
Sa-siktha ( milk ) 6. A-siktha
A-siktha Similarly, though Ācāranga 24 gives a list of 21 potables, this seems to have been overlooked. Muni Nathamala mentions three varieties of potables out of which Āsādhara25 selects 'Pānaka' as a general term. He classifies them in six varieties much similar to Bhagavati Arādhanā 26. These include normally all types of potables. The Vrata-vidhāna-sangraha counts fermented or denatured liquids separately but it could be included in pānaka itself??. The potables are said to enliven the activity of vital fluids in the body. The discussion on other categories will be made at appropriate places. Classification of Foods on Methods of Intake
Bhagavati and Prajñāpanā 28 mention three classes of food based on methods of intake : (i) absorbable ( energy,
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