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The page treats madana modaka, the Ayurvedic bhang confection whose recipe Dutt gives in 1877, and the two formulations of the name in Tavhare and Acharya's survey. Madanānanda modaka is a separate formulation in that survey and is listed on Cannabis in Ayurveda.
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Sources
- Dutt, The Materia Medica of the Hindus (1877), pp. 240–241, from the Wellcome Collection scan of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh copy. The Sanskrit text is in footnote 1 on p. 241.
- Abhilas Chandra Mukerjee's evidence to the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (vol. IV, witness 63, p. 169) gives the recipe in Dutt's words with "(vide Sara Kaumudi)" added. It is the same text, so it is not a second witness to the composition.
- Tavhare and Acharya (2017), table 1, nos. 66 and 68 (p. 62); table 14 and the section on śodhana (p. 73); references 15, 27 and 31 (pp. 74–75).
Is it cannabis?
Dutt gives the recipe in his article on Cannabis sativa and calls the ingredient "hemp leaves with flowers and seeds". Madana is also the Sanskrit name Dutt gives for Randia dumetorum (p. 177); the recipe contains no Randia.
Where the sources differ
- Dutt gives the confection for cough, chronic bowel complaints and impotence. Tavhare and Acharya give one Madana Modaka for vājīkaraṇa and rasāyana (from the Rasarājamahodadhi) and one for grahaṇī (from the Rasaratnasamuccaya and the Bharata Bhaiṣajya Ratnākara). Their tables give no ingredients, so whether either is Dutt's recipe is open.
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- Whether the confection is still made is not shown by the sources cited.