Purity of Foods
Topic on the Purity of Foods (Pinda-suddhi) The purity of food (Pinda) is termed as ‘Pinda-ṡuddhi’. There are eight kinds of defect for scrutinising the purity of foods : (1) Origination defects (Udgama doṣa) (2)Receiving-of-food or food -acceptance defects(utpadana dosa) (3)Food-acceptablity defects (Eṣaṇa (4)Combinatory or mixing defect (Sanyojana) (5)Over quantity defect (Pramaṇa) (6)Lust-fire defect (Angara,...