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UTTARADHYAYANA.
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The taste of the blue Lêsyâ is infinitely more pungent than Trikatuka 1and Hastipippali. (11)
The taste of grey Lêsyâ is infinitely sourer than that of unripe Mango and Kapittha2. (12)
The taste of red Lêsyâ is infinitely more pleasant than that of ripe Mango and Kapittha. (13)
The taste of yellow Lêsyâ is infinitely better than that of excellent wine and various liquors, honey and Mairêyaka. (14)
The taste of white Lêsyâ is infinitely better than that of dates, grapes, milk, candied and pounded sugar. (15)
The smell of the bad Lêsyâs (viz. the three first) is infinitely worse than that of the corpse of a cow, dog, or snake. (16)
The smell of the three good Lêsyâs is infinitely more pleasant than that of fragrant flowers and of perfumes when they are pounded. (17)
5. The touch of the bad Lêsyâs is infinitely worse than that of a saw, the tongue of a cow, or leaf of the Teak tree. (18)
The touch of the three good Lêsyâs is infinitely more pleasant than that of cotton, butter, or Sirishaflowers1. (19)
6. The degrees of the Lêsyâs are three, or nine,
1 The aggregate of three spices, &c., black and long pepper and dry ginger.
2 Feronia Elephantum.
A kind of intoxicating drink, extracted from the blossoms of Lythrum Fructicosum, with sugar, &c.
Acacia Sirisa.
'The Lêsyâs may possess their qualities in a low, middle, or high degree; each of these degrees is again threefold, viz. low, middle, and high. In this way the subdivision is carried on up to 243.
