Drink of Immortality : Essays on Distillation and Alcohol Use in Ancient India /

Drink of Immortality : Essays on Distillation and Alcohol Use in Ancient India /

This collection contains ten articles, the first four of them dealing with the antiquity of distillation process in India which is central to the manufacture of alcohol. Written from different points of view they reflect the lack of unanimity among scholars and throw light on an important aspect of...

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Other Authors: Jha, D.N. (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2020.

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Alcoholism > India > History > To 1500.
Distillation > History > To 1500.
Temperance > India > History > To 1500.

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Call Number: HV5593

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • S.S. Jha
  • Introduction /
  • S.S. Jha
  • India: The Ancient Home of Distillation? /
  • F.R. Allchin
  • Surā in the Paippalāda Saṁhitā of the Atharvaveda /
  • Marianne S. Oort
  • Too Big to Fail /
  • James McHugh
  • Distillation /
  • Irfan Habib
  • Spirituous Drinks in Ancient India /
  • Rajendralal Mitra
  • Soma/Haoma /
  • Rajesh Kochhar
  • The Soma-Haoma Problem /
  • Jan E.M. Houben
  • Madyam Apeyam /
  • Pentti Aalto
  • Dionysiac Aspects of Kuṣāṇa Art /
  • Martha L. Carter
  • A Parody of the Kāpālikas in the Mattavilāsa /
  • David N. Lorenzen
  • Contributors /
  • S.S. Jha
  • Index /
  • S.S. Jha.