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Drinks
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Drinks
1. Milk : Milk and Takra (butter-mllk) appear to be very important drinks of the age (II.48). Milk was mixed with guļa (III.9). Milk mixed with ghee is also mentioned (VIII.96). Milk of camels was also taken in the Raivataka mountain and curd was also prepared by this milk (XV.66). The milk of a female deer is also mentioned (VI.49).
2. Takra (Butter-milk) (II.48), 3. Sugar-cane juice (XVIII.125).
4. Soma (XV.10). The Soma juice is extracted from creepers called Valvajasoma (XV.73).
5. Phānța (XV.10). Abhayatilakagani has explained it as an astringent medicine (Kaşāya). It is neither boiled nor ground but its juice is extracted only with the help of water (X.56)'. In the Kāśikā also such an explanation is given”.
6. Phanita (XV.10). The other form of Phāņța is Phaņita. According to V. S. Agrawala, Phaņita denotes inspissated juice of sugar-cane boiled down to their consistency, a preparation now called 'rāb' from which after crystellization sugar is prepared. It appears that Phaņita was extracted with a great difficulty.
1. DV. XV.10.
अनायाससाध्यमश्रपितमपिष्ट मुदकसम्पर्कमात्राद्विभक्तरसमौषधम कषायादि
$10ZĄ 2. Kāśikā. Pāņ V11.2.18, p.633.
फाण्टमिति भवत्यनायासश्चेत् । फरिणतमन्यत् । यदश्रृतमपिष्टं च कषायमुदक सम्पर्कमात्राद्विभक्तरसमीषदुष्णं तत्फाण्टम् । 3. Agrawal, V.S. op. cit., p. 111.
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