Drink of Immortality

Essays on Distillation and Alcohol Use in Ancient India

Buch | Hardcover

278 Seiten

2024
Manohar Publishers and Distributors (Verlag)
9789390035212 (ISBN)

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They emphasize that neither the ancient Indians nor their gods and goddesses were abstemious teetotalers: evidence is plentiful to indicate that they were more bon vivant than we can imagine or give them credit for.

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 technology. The remaining six articles discuss the evidence of alcohol use in ancient India. Drawing on textual evidence from religious and secular literature, they unravel the lesser known aspects of life of ancient Indians and amply demonstrate how alcohol consumption influenced religion and art.

Dwijendra Narayan Jha (popularly known as D N Jha) was educated at the Presidency College, Calcutta and Patna University where he taught history for more than a decade. He was Professor of History, University of Delhi, until his retirement in 2005.

Introduction 9 Part I
1. India: The Ancient Home of Distillation?
F.R. Allchin 15
2. Sura? in the Paippala?da Sam?hita? of the Atharvaveda
Marianne S. Oort 29
3. Too Big to Fail: The Idea of Ancient Indian Distillation James McHugh 41
4. Distillation
Irfan Habib 63
Part II 5. Spirituous Drinks in Ancient India
Rajendralal Mitra 69 6. Soma/Haoma
Rajesh Kochhar 99
7. The Soma-Haoma Problem: Introductory OverVIew and Observations on the Discussion
Jan E.M. Houben 119
8. Madyam Apeyam
Pentti Aalto 171
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9. Dionysiac Aspects of Kus?a?n?a Art
Martha L. Carter 197 10. A Parody of the Ka?pa?likas in the Mattavila?sa
David N. Lorenzen 251 List of Contributors 273 Index 275

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	203 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-13	9789390035212 / 9789390035212
Zustand	Neuware