India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s6.t2.29

c8.s6.t2.29

Both these examples refer only to the sweetening ingredients of *maireya*, viz. *guḍa* and *madhu*. Obviously according to Pāṇini's intention as implied in the *sūtra*, the word *aṅgāni* refers only to the sweetening ingredients and not to the *aushadhi* contents like *meshaśṛiṅgī*, etc. It may be inferred with reason that the *aushadhi* contents of *maireya* remained constant, where-as the sweetening ingredients varied between *guḍa*, *madhu*, *śarkarā*, etc. The naming of *maireya* would thus depend not on the constant ingredients, but on the sweetening contents which varied. For example, the customer ordering his *maireya* drink from the master of the booth would not say *meshaśṛiṅgī-maireya* or *triphalā-maireya*, but would express his desire for a variety in taste by ordering for *guḍa-maireya*, *madhu-maireya*, *śarkarā-maireya*, *phāṇita-maireya*, *ikshurasa-maireya*, etc.