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भावप्रकाश में देश: जांगल, आनूप और साधारण — तीन भूमियाँ
भावप्रकाश का देश प्रकरण भूमि को जांगल, आनूप और साधारण में बाँटता है, और उस भूमि को श्रेष्ठ कहता है...
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Desha in the Bhavaprakasha: Jangala, Anupa and Sadharana, and the Land Defined by What You Can Eat
The short version After it closes the chapter on children, the Bhavaprakasha opens a short one with the words atha...
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Phala Varga in the Ashtanga Hridaya: Draksa the Best of Fruits, Lakuca the Worst - the Ripeness Clock of Mango and Bilva, the Madhura Gallery and the Salt Shelf's First Crown
Quick Summary The sixth chapter of the Ashtanga Hridaya’s Sutrasthana — the Annasvarupa Vijnaniya Adhyaya, Vagbhata’s great food ledger —...
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Lasuna, Palandu, Mulaka: Garlic, Onion and Radish in the Ashtanga Hridaya — Vagbhata's Vegetable Ledger, Part Two (Palak, Kusmanda, Sarson, Tulsi and the Garlic Rasayana Verse, Sutrasthana 6)
Quick Summary When we last opened Sutrasthana chapter 6 of the Ashtanga Hridaya, Vagbhata’s vegetable ledger had given us karela,...
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Shaka Varga in the Ashtanga Hridaya: Vagbhata's Classical Vegetable Ledger — Karela (Karavellaka), Baingan (Vartaka), Bathua (Vastuka) and the Twenty-Eight Bitter Shakas (Sutrasthana 6)
Quick Summary Somewhere around the seventh century, the physician-compiler Vagbhata sat down to grade the vegetables of the Indian kitchen...
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Saktu, Laja, Prthuka, Rasala: Sattu, Murmura, Poha & Shrikhand in the Ashtanga Hridaya — Vagbhata's Krtanna Varga of Prepared Foods
Quick Summary The sattu sharbat of a North Indian summer, the poha on a Maharashtrian breakfast table, the murmura in...
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