Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 3.47
Preserving These Nice Preparations
“Amongst the various vegetables were newly grown leaves of nimba trees fried with eggplant. The fruit known as paṭola was fried with phulabaḍi, a kind of dhal preparation first mashed and then dried in the sun. There was also a preparation known as kuṣmāṇḍa-mānacāki.”
What the purport teaches
- Newly grown nimba leaves were fried with eggplant. Paṭola was fried with phulabaḍi, a dhal preparation first mashed and then dried in the sun.
- There was also a preparation called kuṣmāṇḍa-mānacāki.
- The purport requests cookbook editors to include all these nice preparations described by the experienced author Śrīla Kavirāja Gosvāmī.
Try this today
Copy the name and description of one preparation from this verse into your cooking notes.
Ask yourself
Why might it be valuable to preserve these preparations in cookbooks?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.