Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c6.s1.42

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² Compare Mahuan, *J.R.A.S.*, 1895, 541; also Vambery 29. For the variety manufactured from Mahua (Bassia Latifolia) compare Ibn Batuta K.R., II, 11 who compares it to the taste of dates ‘dried in the sun’. Compare Babur who finds this drink distasteful. B.N., 26. For its strong intoxicating effect see P., 329. Babur considers the drink manufactured from the palm ‘on the whole, good stuff’ and the other variety from cocoanut, quite strong and nice. B.N., 262. Nicolo Conti speaks of a cheap beer made of ground rice and mixed with water and some ‘redde coloure’ all tempered with the juice of ‘Tall’ tree. Frampton, 137.

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