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Chapter 17<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 17 Verse 8<\/a><\/p>\n katvamlalavaNAthyushNa thIkshNa rUkshavidhAhina: |<\/em> katvamla lavaNa athi ushNa thIkshNa rUkshavidhAhina: – (Abundant) bitter, sour, salty, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning Food items which are abundantly bitter, sour, salty, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning, are dear to those who are having abundance of rajO guNam (passion) and lead to sorrow, grief and illness.<\/p>\n ‘Dear to R\u0101jasa-men is food, bitter, sour, saltish, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning; productive of pain, grief and illness.’<\/span><\/p>\n The bitter, the acid; the most saltish, >> Chapter 17 Verse 10<\/a><\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 17 << Chapter 17 Verse 8 SlOkam \u2013 Original katvamlalavaNAthyushNa thIkshNa rUkshavidhAhina: | AhArA rAjasasyEsh\u1e6dA dhu:khaSOkAmayapradhA: || word-by-word meaning katvamla lavaNa athi ushNa thIkshNa rUkshavidhAhina: – (Abundant) bitter, sour, salty, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning AhArA: – food items rAjasasya ishtA: – dear to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-17","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16383,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions\/16383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n AhArA rAjasasyEsh\u1e6dA dhu:khaSOkAmayapradhA: ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n
\nAhArA: – food items
\nrAjasasya ishtA: – dear to those who are having abundance of rajO guNam (passion)
\ndhu:khaSOkAmaya pradhA: – lead to sorrow, grief and illness.<\/p>\nSimple Translation<\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
\n\u2014very hot, very biting, dry (or hard) and burning kinds of food. T\u012bksh\u1e47a<\/em> are useless foods either because they are too hot or too cold. R\u016bksh\u1e47a<\/em> or dry foods are those which are dry (and produce thirst). Vid\u0101hina\u1e25<\/em> are those that cause a burning sensation. Such foods are liked by the Rajasa-full men. Those foods promote pain, grief and ailments, and also increase Rajas.<\/span><\/p>\n
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