Essay name: Brahma Purana (critical study)
Author:
Surabhi H. Trivedi
Affiliation: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda / Department of Sanskrit Pali and Prakrit
This is an English study of the Brahmapurana—one of the eighteen major Puranas which occupies an important place in the Pauranic literature. This study researches the rich an encyclopaedic material for social, religious, philosophical, mythological, political, geographical and literary study found in the Brahma-Purana.
Social and Economic Life
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Kava, Nesa, Hudga, 118, (iddhartha (white (austard), Conan,
Coutuma, Nasira (a sort of lentil or pilso), (yanaka (100),
(n
Badhuko (a kind of troo),
various other types of dry
vara (wild rice), Kulatthakn,
and arenya corno, Tandilss
(grains after threaching a winnowing, especially rice),
were prepared (47.25-27). Elsewhere it in said that a
bradthe dould be puriorsod with Xava, Vrini, Fila, Nao,
o, nano, wadge, Synfica, ramapadrava, Hivara,
Bastdayazaks (a kind of lot), Priyangu (Italian millot
or mastard seed), Fit (o korice with small grains)
(200.134,105), and one should not as ajamase (a kind of
Dean), Gevaks, (astre, Noradanka (Lodrave), iprusa (?),
Aarinta (2) and Kodrava (Cuart - Hera); (220.1d8.100).
sa:
A yogin is advised to eat bana (grains) (201.6). Properation
of godhana, yave and gorece dght be taken even though prepared
watuous oll (221.110).
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5 tho Indus-valley poople 0150 asod animal food.
often refure to meat-esting.
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