go contrary to nature.*[1] These properties depend more upon the mode of cooking or preparing them than upon the nature of the substances themselves;♦[2] more upon the quantity in which they are taken than the mode of their cooking or preparation;†[3] and more upon the food (lit. boiled rice) itself than upon the quantity of its use,‡[4] and more upon the time (of its maturity) than upon the food.§[5]
The question of lightness or heaviness of a food stuff affects the idle, the unhealthy, the luxurious, and men of delicate constitution and impaired appetite, and such nice discernment of the properties of an article of food is not imperatively obligatory on strong, healthy men of active habits and good healthy digestion, who are habituated to hard and solid fares, and who can tolerably afford to dispense with such thoughts , altogether. Here ends the description of the group of after-potions.
Hear me, O my child, discourse on the rules to be observed in connection with eating. The kitchen
- ↑ *If it be asked why the flesh of an animal of the Jamghala, family is light? The answer would be because it is naturally so.
- ↑ ♦As for example, vrihi corn is naturally heavy of digestion, but fried Vrihi seeds are light.
- ↑ †As for instance, a heavy food should be taken till the appetite is but half satisfied. while an article which is light with regard to digestion may be eaten to satiety.
- ↑ ‡As for instance, of the varieties of food such as the Manda, Peya, vilepi, Bhakta and Pishtaka, each succeeding one is heavier than the one immediately preceding it.
- ↑ §As for example, newly harvested rice is heavier than the one of a year's standing.
