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TILAKAMANJARI OF DHANAPĀLA
Śāli according to him is any grain of a smaller character as rice or grain of rice.
Vrīhi is rice ripening in the rainy season.?
Kalama? is the rice that is sown in May and June and ripens in December and January. Khandaśāli may be a variety of sweet rice or rice broken to pieces.
“Lāja"'4 fried grains (of rice) have been mentioned.
"Priyangu's according to Monier Williams is 'Italian Millet', long pepper, saffron. Panic seed or mustard seed, but a variety of rice according to Dr. Om Parkash.'
'Odana' is the rice porridge or 'bhāta' or cooked rice or grain mashed and cooked with milk or any pap or pulpy substance. Of the Dairy ProductsDhanapāla has mentioned Ajya (clarified butter), dadhi (curd), in "Wahaig CETYTUS" 18 etc.
meaning thereby the dishes containing the cooked rice, clarified butter and curd. It may even mean the serving of dishes containing cooked rice mixed with curd and clarified butter forming staple food.
"अजिरमंण्डपच्छायानिविष्टगोरसपरिपष्टमहाकायपष्ट कौलेयकैः19
refers to 'Gorasa' which had nourished the bodies of the terriers. 'Gorasa' is milk, butter-milk or curdled milk according to Monier Williams. The commentator construes - 'TIR -Retaile" i.e. substances such as milk, curd and ghee.
1. Skt. Eng. Dic. p. 1068. 2. Ibid. p. 1043. 3. Ibid. p. 260. 4. TM Vol. II 210, Vol. II p. 254. 5. Ibid. Vol. II p. 255, Vol. II p. 273, Vol. III p. 86. 6. Skt. Eng. Dict. under Priyangu. 7. Food and Drinks in Ancient India p. 87. 8. TM Vol. II p. 256. 9. Ibid. Vol. II p. 257. 10. Skt. Eng. Dict. Gorasa. 11. TM Vol. II p. 257 Commentary.
गौरसश्रीभिरिव शरीरिणीभिःTITYGGAH:- Ibid. Vol. II p. 258.
