Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c9.241

c9.241

Medicinal Wines. The *Arthaśāstra* enumerates various kinds of liquors in use in the country in those days, including those which were not harmful, but medicinal, such as *Āsavas*, *Arishṭas* approved by physicians (*chikitsakāḥ pramāṇāḥ*), *Madhu* or grape juice (*mṛidvīkā-rasa*) of the varieties called *Kāpiśāyana* and *Hārahūraka*, i.e., the wine from Kāpiśa or northern Afghanistan and the wine which came from the country of the Harahūras, a people mentioned in the *Bṛihatsaṁhitā* as inhabiting a region to the west or perhaps north-west of *Bhāratavarsha*.