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Except for some items of specific regional utility, it is clear that all over India domestic utensils are very much the same. Writing in the early 18th century AD in Sanskrit, King Basavarāja of Keladi (Krishnamurthy, 1984, p. 227) in present-day Karnataka uses Sanskrit terms without awkwardness to denote many utensils then in use in a southern kitchen, like *gharatta* for grinding stone, *pravani* for frying pan and *kharpava* for *tāvā*. Regionally, Punjab has the distinctive *tandoori* baking oven. Kashmir has items with a Central Asian association like the *traemsarposh* used to serve Wazwan food, the *khaṇḍakari* or *samovar* used in brewing the aromatic *kahwah* tea, and certain distinctive ladles used in cooking and serving.