Summer: food rich in milk and ghee, cold drinks, jaggery and sugarcane, and well water. Rains: mainly bitter and astringent food with a little pungent, milk, sugarcane and their products, and hot water. Verse 14 adds autumn (food with milk, ghee and sugar, bitter and astringent drinks, any water) and hemanta (avoid pungent, bitter and cold; take salty/alkaline, astringent, sour and sweet food with ghee and oil).
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- ग्रीष्मर्तु वा वर्षर्तु में हितग्रीष्म और वर्षा ऋतु में हितकर (श्लोक 14 में शरद् और हेमंत भी)
- English
- What is wholesome in summer and the rains (verse 14 adds autumn and hemanta)
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