India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s6.12

c8.s6.12

(iv) *Saṁskṛita*. This term (IV.2.16 and IV.4.3) denotes such food as is ready for eating direct from its place of preparation, e.g. groats ground in a hand-mill. Patañjali further points out that barley which is being pounded in the mortar is not in an eatable stage until it is boiled (*Bhāshya*, IV.3.25; II.307). Pāṇini mentions *dadhi* (IV.2.18), *udaśvit* (butter-milk, IV.2.19) and milk (*kshīra*, IV.2.20) as examples of *saṁskṛita* food. The *Kāśikā* instances *apūpa* or sweet bread baked in an oven as coming under this class (*bhrāshṭrā apūpāḥ*, IV.2.16).