Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s12.44

v1.c3.s12.44

Khalva is some sort of grain or leguminous plant, perhaps, as Weber¹ thinks, the *Phaselus radiatus*. It is mentioned with other grains of all sorts in the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,² and as being crushed with the Dṛṣad in the Atharvaveda.³ It occurs also in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad,⁴ where Śaṅkara glosses it with *niṣpāva*.