Cooking of medicated fats

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Names and synonyms

Sanskrit: स्नेहपाकस्नेहविपाक
Hindi: स्नेहपाकघृत-तैल का पाक
English: Cooking of medicated fats

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Definition1

The verse calls the cooking mild when fat and drug separate distinctly, sticky when the paste is free of fat and very slimy, and hard-sticky when the paste rubbed between two fingers at once becomes round; beyond that it is over-burnt.
Chapter 20 · p. 451 · v. 26Sanskrit verseTraditional description

Classification1

The commentary says all the differing views of teachers on cooking ghee and similar preparations are accepted, and that the cooking of fats is of three kinds, mild (mridu), sticky (chikkana) and hard-sticky (khara-chikkana), each having qualities that match its name.
Chapter 20 · p. 451 · v. 25Hindi commentaryTraditional description

Cautions1

The commentary adds that burnt cooking (dagdha paka) is without virtue.
Chapter 20 · p. 451 · v. 26Hindi commentaryTraditional description

Discussed in topics4

Promise to describe the actions of medicines and related topicsऔषधकर्म आदि के वर्णन की प्रतिज्ञा Promise to describe the cooking of fats and related topicsस्नेहपाक आदि के वर्णन की प्रतिज्ञा Signs of the mild, sticky and hard-sticky gradesमृदु, चिक्कण और खरचिक्कण पाक के लक्षण Three grades of cooking fatsस्नेहपाक के तीन भेद

Questions1

How is a decoction made when a ghee recipe gives no rule, and whose opinions does the text cite?जब घृत आदि के पाक में कषाय की विधि न लिखी हो तो कषाय कैसे बनाया जाता है, और इसमें किन आचार्यों के मत दिए गए हैं?

Sessions1

Compendium of the science and rules of methodशास्त्रसंग्रहतंत्रयुक्ति

Where else is this mentioned?

Named 4 times on 2 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.

Questions and answers

How is a decoction made when a ghee recipe gives no rule, and whose opinions does the text cite?

The drug is boiled in four times water down to an eighth according to Shrutakirti and Kumaranandi, or to a sixteenth according to Virasena and other ancient teachers.

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