Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s4.112

v2.c4.s4.112

Madhu denotes anything sweet used as food, and especially drink, ‘mead,’¹ a sense often found in the Rigveda.² More precisely it denotes either ‘Soma’³ or ‘milk,’⁴ or less often ‘honey,’⁵ which, however, is the most definite sense in the later literature. Taboos against the use of honey are recorded.⁶