Source: – @hamsanandi / @misranityanand True Indology
Fiction: (By a culinary journalist expert for The Print) – Mughals brought grapes to India( So around 1509 CE)
Fact: Lokopakaara, a ಕನ್ನಡ Kannada work written in 1025 CE, gives a recipe using grapes as an ingredient.
What's up with this Mughal fixation? @ThePrintIndia @acharya2 pic.twitter.com/rh3CxCKqXG
— ಹಂಸಾನಂದಿ (@hamsanandi) June 3, 2019
‘Charaka-samhita’ (400 BCE—200 CE) mentions ‘drākṣā’ (द्राक्षा = ‘grape’) 23 times.
‘Amarakosha’ (400 CE) gives 5 words for grapes: “mṛdvīkā gostanī drākṣā svādvī madhuraseti ca” (2.4.107).
’Lokopakaara’ (1025 CE) has a recipe with grapes.
’The Print’ (2019 CE) is ignorant. https://t.co/BI61im4pqZ
— Nityānanda Miśra (मिश्रोपाख्यो नित्यानन्दः) (@MisraNityanand) June 5, 2019
On the basis of carbon samples, archaeology proves that Grape was a summer crop of Harappa (c.2600 BC)https://t.co/dWd9w0qNVe
Grapes were cultivated in India 4000 years before the father of Mughals was even born. @ThePrintIndia pic.twitter.com/FkPSDhSUiB
— TrueIndology (@TrueIndologyliv) June 4, 2019
