The Ancient Indian Alcoholic Drink Called Surā: Vedic Evidence
A drink called surā is the alcoholic drink mentioned in our oldest Indian text, the Ṛg Veda, and people continued to make a drink called surā for millennia. This article uses the methodology of the comparative study of fermentation methods in order to make sense of the earliest descriptions of surā...
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JAOS
Year: 2021, Volume: 141, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-72 |
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