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Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- मधुक्षौद्रमाक्षिकपौत्तिकभ्रामर
- Hindi
- शहदमधुशहद पुराना
- English
- Honeyhoneymadhu
- Romanized
- madhushahad
- Marathi
- मध
What the text says
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Contraindications2
The hitahita chapter groups honey with liquor and meat as impure food that involves the killing of many living beings, aggravates all the doshas, causes great sin and makes diseases grow, and says the authoritative sages rejected it.
The translation groups honey with liquor and meat as impure food that causes the destruction of many beings, aggravates many doshas and makes all diseases grow, and says the sages rejected it from afar.
Historical1
Honey, with liquor and meat, is said to have been mixed into this science of Ayurveda later by people greedy of the tongue.
Other2
The introduction says honey, like wine and meat, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because obtaining it involves killing countless living beings and its renunciation is needed to uphold non-violence.
Honey is named with liquor and meat among the condemnable substances whose use, the translation says, the other texts support in many ways.
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Open in the usage explorerProcedures using it
1Other ingredients used together
5Count of shared preparations.
Topics of the text that discuss it
7Course sessions
2Questions and answers
2Plant glossary entries
2Related entries
7Where else is this mentioned?
Named 1 times on 1 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
Questions and answers
What does the front matter say about wine, meat and honey in the Kalyāṇakāraka?
No formula in the work uses wine, meat or honey, because they arise from violence; and its last section, which Ugrāditya is said to have delivered at the court of Nṛpatuṅga Vallabha, sets out to prove that meat is of no use in medicine.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhat do मधुक and मधूक mean in the glossary?
Both mean licorice (मुलहटी, ज्येष्ठीमध) and the mahua tree (महुआ, मोहाचा वृक्ष); मधुक is also glossed as tin, honey and wax.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Food
- Categories
- Sweetener
- Source pages with records
- 5
- Pages naming it
- 1
- Chapters
- Front matterAppendix: Hitahita
- Extraction tasks
- T01, T29, T30
- Record id
- ingredient_madhu