[Sca-cooks] Medieval Indian food

[Johnna Holloway]

Available here now
http://www.exoticindia.com/book/details/vaidyavatamsah-of-lolimbaraja-IDI602/

This page also lists the Table of Contents so people can see what it contains before purchase.

Johnnae

On Apr 25, 2013, at 3:57 PM, David Friedman wrote:

> 
> On 4/2/13 6:31 PM, Johnna Holloway wrote:
>> For all that wondered,
>> Lolimbaraja, Pammi Satyanarayana Sastry, and Kshema Sarma, Vaidyāvatamsah : an adornment to ayurveda, the science of life of Lōlimbarāja : with excerpts of ancient cuisine from Kṣhēma kutūhalam Kṣhēma Śarmā, Chowkamba Sanskrit Series, Varanasi 2006
>> is at
>> 
>> http://tinyurl.com/csgcwlu ( no longer available through this source.)

> I ordered it and it arrived today. 89 pages, partly sanskrit, partly English. It includes a fair number of recipes, along with health comments. I think what it is is  a treatise on ayurvedic medicine, or possibly a dictionary thereof, from one source, with recipes added from two others. The recipes look usable--a bunch of syrups, but also solid dishes.
> So far as I can tell, it doesn't say anywhere what the dates of any of the three sources are. But a google search found a reference to the author of the main book, Lolimbaraja, which says he lived in the years just before 1600--so in period for us, but barely.
> Another source I found online has a chronology of Indian authors, and dates the Ksema kutuhala composed by Ksema sarma to 1359, so well in period for us. The syrups, according to the introduction, are from Paniya kalpavalli. I haven't located any information on its date.