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The page treats mudra (madra), the drink of bhang with liquor recorded in Baluchistan and the Punjab. It does not cover the word mudra in its other senses.
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Sources
- Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, vol. I, ch. VIII, para. 425, p. 157, is cited from the page image, where the word is printed in italics as mudra. The OCR text of the page reads it as dra.
- Bhagat Hira Nand (vol. V, Punjab witness no. 85, answer 28, p. 504) is cited from the text layer: "when liquor is mixed with bhang (which admixtures is known by the name of mudra". His answer does not mention dhatura or opium.
- Chopra and Chopra (1957) is cited from the UNODC web edition, which carries no page numbers. Their sentence follows the commission's list of ingredients; it is likely drawn from the report and is not treated as an independent witness for Baluchistan.
Title and spelling
- The title follows the commission's mudra, the spelling of both 1890s sources. The Chopras' madra is a redirect. No other page on this wiki uses the title, so it takes no disambiguator.
Sources that differ
- The commission reports the Baluchistan drink only as "said to be"; the Chopras call it "a popular intoxicant" in the past tense. The article gives both in their own words.
- The commission's mudra has dhatura and opium in it; Hira Nand uses the name for liquor mixed with bhang alone.
Is it cannabis?
- Both 1890s sources name bhang.
Kind and plant part
- Drink. Leaf: bhang.
- Country: Pakistan (Baluchistan, Rawalpindi) and India (the Punjab of the 1890s spans both).
- Still made: "No longer made" rests on the Chopras' "used to be" (1957).
Not searched
- The Baluchistan evidence in vol. VII was searched in its text layer for mudra and madra with no hit; its OCR is poor, and a page-image search was not made.