Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.239
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.239
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c5.239
Liquor was, no doubt, manufactured and consumed on a large scale.⁸ Drinking festivals were a common feature of those days,⁹ even though the evil effects of drinking were recognised¹⁰ and abstention from it was preached.¹¹ Liquor was extracted from rice and fruit mixture,¹² the *soma* plant¹³ and from the sugar-cane,¹⁴ and was sold in shops (*surāpaṇa*) open day and night.¹⁵