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Abhakṣya 18 · beings you cannot see

Pulse in raw curd

द्विदल · घोलवडा

A pulse mixed with raw milk, curd or buttermilk is refused because, the commentary says, beings arise in it too small for anyone but an omniscient to see; the verse names the dish, ghola-vaḍā, and means the rule.

Dvidala, two-halved: the commentary defines it as any pulse that splits in two when ground and yields no oil - gram, lentil, mung, urad, the beans. Mixed with go-rasa, the milk group, in its raw state, the two together breed life at once. Ghola-vaṭaka is a vaḍā in buttermilk, and Siddhasena says the verse names it as an upalakṣaṇa, one case standing for the whole class, āma-gorasa-sampṛkta-dvidala, which Hemacandra lists under its own name.

The practical rule that follows is the one every Jain kitchen knows: curd with a pulse only if the curd was first brought to the boil, because cooking ends what raw mixing starts. It is the same reason as butter in a different pair.

The twenty-two, laid by their reasonsPravacanasāroddhāra 245–246 - the verse still recited, bāvīs abhakṣyathe sectors are the commentary's reasons, sized by count; the numbers on the bowls are the verse'sthirteen of the twenty-two are refused for beings you cannot seebeings you cannot seein it, or arising in it13beings without numbera soul in every seed, or infinite in one body3the elements, rawwater and earth, for no need3the eater, or unweighableharm to oneself, or what cannot be judged3the five figsthe four vikṛtis1umbarathe gūlar fig2vaṭathe banyan fig3pippalathe peepal fig4plakṣathe plakṣa fig5kākodumbarathe small fig6madhuhoney7navanītabutter8madyawine9māṃsameat14rātri-bhojanathe night meal17sandhānapickles18ghola-vaṭakapulse in raw curd22calita-rasafood that has turned15bahu-bījamany-seeded fruit16ananta-kāyathe common bodies19vṛntākabrinjal10himasnow12karakahail13mṛdearth11viṣapoison20amuṇiya phulla-phalaunknown fruit, flowers21tuccha-phalaempty fruit22bāvīs abhakṣyaPravacanasāroddhāra 245–246
The twenty-two, laid by their reasons - Pulse in raw curd highlighted

Measurements and counts

Place in the verse18 - ghola-vaḍā
Stands forany pulse with raw milk, curd or buttermilk
Dvidalaa pulse that splits in two and yields no oil
Reasonbeings arise in the mixing
The ruleboil the curd first

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