I have checked carefully the tables of contents of P. K. Gode’s Studies in Indian Cultural History, vols. I and III, and find no articles on sesame or its oil. Unfortunately, my copy of vol.   II has either been badly misshelved or lost in a basement flood.

Allen


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On Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 11:51 AM, Gaia Pintucci via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Thanks for trying to prod my memory, but I am afraid I was really thinking of one of P.K. Gode's articles. For instance, some of the articles in vol. 1 of Studies in Indian Cultural History (see the ToC here https://archive.org/details/studiesinindianculturalhistorygodep.k.part1_544_D/page/n11/mode/2up?view=theater) deal with certain plants of the Subcontinent (only not with sesame).

It might all well be a major misrecollection of mine, but if the article does exist, I am sure it is a Gode article.

Gaia Pintucci

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 3:40 PM Andrea Lorene Gutierrez <andreagutierrez@utexas.edu> wrote:

Dear list,

I think Gaia might be thinking of K T Achaya’s Oilseeds and Oilmilling, which has historical sections. Achaya’s other books will also contain history of the seed in S Asia.  

https://archive.org/details/oilseeds-and-oilmilling-in-india-a-cultural-and-historical-survey/page/n8/mode/1up 

Black sesame also has a significant role in Hindu death rites. 

Yours,

Andrea Gutiérrez 

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 7:35 AM Gaia Pintucci via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

This might not be very helpful, but I have a very vague recollection that one of P.K. Gode's articles collected in Studies in Indian Cultural History was devoted, at least in part, to the use of sesame (seeds or oil) in India. Unfortunately I can neither find it at the moment nor remember if the content was relevant to these two questions.

With best wishes, 

Gaia Pintucci

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 12:21 PM Robert Zydenbos <zydenbos@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:

Dear list friends,

A non-Indological colleague asked me whether there are any references in
ancient Indian literature to the medicinal use of sesame oil.

Related: is there any Indian word in any language for 'sesame' that
resembles 'shumshum', 'simsim' or 'shamashammu'?

Any information concerning these two questions would be most welcome.

RZ

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Institute of Indology and Tibetology
Department of Asian Studies
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich – LMU)
Germany


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