Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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236 STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SOTRA (Ch. IV (boiled barley), three kinds of meat, cow-milk, júsa (water of boiled pulse), bhakkha (kchandakhādya or sweets in which candy was applied in sufficient quantity, com.), gulalavaniyā (golapāpada in Gujerāti), mula phala (bread fruit), hariyaga (cumin), sāga (vegetable), rasālu (majjika, a royal preparation made of the mix. ture of two palas of ghee, one pala of honey, half an ādhaka of curds, twenty pepper corns and ten palas of candied sugar, com.), pāņa (wine), pāņiya (water), pāņaga (a drink made of grapes) and sāga (a preparation seasoned with butter-milk, such as, dahibadā, etc. com).
Besides these, other palatable foods are also mentioned, such as, "Pejja (made of gruel or decoction of some kind of pulse or rice), ghayapunna (ghevara in Hindi), Palangamāhuraya (a sweet liquid preparation of the mango or lemon-juice)," si hakesara' (a sweet), morandaka (a sweet made of oil seed),' manduku, (a cake stuffed with molasses and ghee), ahadiyā, (a special sweet), pulāka? (a special dish), guliya (tablets made from the powder of the tubara tree, which were used by the monks) and the kholas (dried pieces of cloths moistened with inilk, the washing water of them was used as drink)."8
Fish and meat eating
We learn from the Bhs that fish and meat-eating was prevalent in the society. Thus it is stated here that in Dusama-Dusamākālı (a period of crisis according to the Nirgrantha religion, the people of Bhāratavarşa, having come out of their respective holes before one instant of the sunrise and after one instant of the sunset will cause to take fish and tortoise to the land (or will cause to bury them into the ground); they will pass time up to twenty-one thousand years by carrying on livelihood with those lifeless fish and tortoises seasoned by cold
i Sthanaiga Sutra-3. 135, Vide 'Life in Ancient India' by Dr.
J. C. Jain, p. 123. 9 Uvāsagadasão, 1, p. 8.
9 Antagadadasão, p. 10. . 4 Brhat. Bhāsya, 1. 3281. 5 Nišitha Cürni, II, p. 695. & Brhatkalpa Sutra, 2, 17; Bhāsya, 2. 3616. 116, 5, 6048 ff. 8 Ib, 1.2882; 2892. See 'Life in Ancient India' by Dr. J.C. Jain.
pp. 123-24, for details.