Yava:
Definition
Yava in Veda and Purana- There is detailed description of Yava in veda, araṇyaka, ypanishaḍa, grihya sutra and shatapata brahmaṇa. It is considered as the most ancient cereal in Atharva Veda and also elaborated its feature as ‘dirgashuko dhanya vishesha’. Various purana enrols the yava in religious ceremony/ rituals, gramaranya (rural as well as wild), food material. It is used. There is a description of yava as diet as well as in some medicinal formulation and for care of plants; in the decaying of fruits, trees should be served with water mixed with various cereals, sesame seed and yava in agni purana Yava in Ayurvedic text -There is detailed description of yava in various ayurvedic samhitas and nigantus. It is kept under shukadhanya varga in charak samhita, sushurta samhita6 and astanga hridaya. Acharya Vagabhata was the first to give the concept of Vichitra pratyarabdha drayva and given yava as an example of this
Synonyms
Synonyms in Ayurveda: aksata, akshata, dhanyaraja, divyaThe Old English word for barley was bære, which traces back to Proto-Indo-European and is cognate to the Latin word farina "flour". The direct ancestor of modern English "barley" in Old English was the derived adjective bærlic, meaning "of barley". The first citation of the form bærlic in the Oxford English Dictionary dates to around 966 CE, in the compound word bærlic-croft. The underived word bære survives in the north of Scotland as bere, and refers to a specific strain of six-row barley grown there. The word barn, which originally meant "barley-house", is also rooted in these words.
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