Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.t2.33

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⁴¹ *Nāyā*, 17, p 203 *Paṇṇa Sū* 17 227 *Maṭsyaṇḍikā* and *khaṇḍaśarkarā* are mentioned, in the *Arthaśāstra* (p 100) and the *Caraka*, ch 27, p 795, and are rendered as granulated sugar and sugar-candy respectively *Puṣpottara* is mentioned in the *Vaidyakaśabda Sindhu* and is rendered by *Puṣpaśarkarā*, which is perhaps the same as '*phūlsākar*' in Gujarati. *Padmottara* probably was prepared from lotus (Bechardas, *Bhag.āri Mahāvīra ni dharmakathāo*, p. 249f) It is translated as *Carthamus Tinctorius* by Monier Williams,