The drug is boiled in four times water and the decoction reduced to a quarter; half that amount of milk and half that amount of ghee or oil are added with drug paste one quarter of the fat, and all is cooked together until only the fat remains. The text calls this the method of cooking sesame oil and similar fats taught by the revered Pujyapada.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- स्नेहपाकविधितिलजादिविपाकलक्षण
- Hindi
- स्नेहपाक विधि
- English
- Rule for cooking medicated oil and ghee
Ingredients and preparation
Ingredients
| Ingredient | As written in the text | Quantity as written |
|---|---|---|
| Water (jala)जल (पानी) | चतुर्गुण जल | चतुर्गुण जल · four times water to the drug |
| Milk (ksheera)दूध (क्षीर) | दुग्ध / दूध | उससे अर्धभाग दूध · milk, half the decoction |
| Ghee (ghrita)घी (घृत) | घृत / घी (स्नेह) | अर्धभाग घी (स्नेह) · ghee or other fat, half the decoction |
| Sesame oil (tila taila)तिल का तेल (तैल) | तिलजादि | Not stated |
Preparation as described
All parts are cooked together and taken off the fire when only the fat portion is left.
एकत्र पकाकर घृत के अंश अवशोष रहने पर उतार लें
Quantities are reported exactly as the source states them. They are historical measures, not dosage advice.
यह पूजयपाद आचार्य के द्वारा कहा हुआ स्नेहपाक का ल़ाण वा विधान हैSource wording as converted, Chapter 20 · p. 450 · v. 24.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.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- Verse on PDF 522, commentary on PDF 523 (book 451).
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 20
- Extraction tasks
- T22
- Record id
- method_sneha_paka_vidhi_p522