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518 : Scientific Contents in Prākṛta Canons
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14. Multi-seeded
plants 15. Brinjal
16. Unknown fruits
17. Low quality fruits
(d) Miscelleneous
18. Poisons
19. Ice
20. Hailstorms
21. Earth-salts
22.
23. Night eating
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4.
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1. Radish
2. Ginger
3. Pumpkin
Lotus root
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Multi-seeded
plants
Brinjal
Unknown fruits
Low quality fruits
Poisons
Ice
Hailstorms
Raw Earth Salts
Unbaked Salts Night eating
Dishes in Canonical Periods
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Though one does not find the methods of cooking various items of food value in canons, but they mention many eatables like fruits, vegetables, flowers, sweetmeats etc. Dasavaikälika one of the earliest secondary Jaina canons mentions many such items which give us an idea about what the ascetics and common people did eat those days. They are given in Table 8. The items also represent the commonly available food materials.
Table 8 Different Food Items Mentioned in Daśavaikālika.
Vegetables
Sweetmeats
3
Multi-seeded
plants
Brinjal
Unknown fruits
Low quality fruits
Poisons
Ice
Hailstorms
Night eating
2
Thin cake of seasame/
sugar
Molasses
Fried sweetcake (Puā)
Fruits
3
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Sugercane
Tinduka
Woodapple
(Bilva)
Pulverised parched gram- Plums wheat-barley powder (sattū)
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