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Phanita

फाणित

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Sanskrit
फाणित
Hindi
फाणित
English
Phanita

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  • A footnote quotes a verse saying that sugarcane juice cooked until slightly thick yet still quite liquid is known among sugarcane products as phanita; the Hindi gloss says the juice is cooked until it is a little thick and quite liquid.

    Chapter 25 · p. 593 · v. 41FootnoteTraditional description

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How is the alkaline water of the kshara kalpa turned into the finished medicine?

The alkaline water is cooked down to a quarter, a quarter part of jaggery is added and it is cooked to the consistency of phanita, a quarter part of trikatu, trijata and nagaramotha powder is mixed in, and it is kept in a prepared pot buried in grain for a month.

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Content type
Food
Source pages with records
1
Pages naming it
3
Chapters
Chapter 25
Extraction tasks
T15, T28
Record id
ingredient_phanita