India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s6.t2.44

c8.s6.t2.44

*DISTILLATION*—In the distillery (*āsuti*, V.2.112), the ingredients were first prepared into a ferment (*kiṇva*); and when their fermentation was complete, they were termed *āsāvya* (III.1.126), literally ‘that of which the distillation has become imminent’ (*āvaśyaka*). The sediment or refuge (*kalka*) left after distillation was termed *vinīya* (III.1.117), a technical word in the vintner’s vocabulary, literally ‘which is fit for removal.’ According to Kauṭilya, women and children could be employed for removing the *surā-kiṇva*, or fermented dregs (*Arth*. Text, II.25, p. 121).