[INDOLOGY] the word 'sesame' and the use of sesame oil

Andrea Lorene Gutierrez andreagutierrez at utexas.edu
Wed Apr 26 22:51:56 UTC 2023


Dear all,

Here's Gode's Vol. II of Cultural History, covering other aspects of
material cultural history. I would not be surprised if Gode wrote on sesame
elsewhere (through BORI?), as he was such a remarkably prolific scholar.
Please do share if the reference is found.

https://archive.org/details/StudiesInIndianCulturalHistoryvolum1/page/n7/mode/2up


Yours,
Andrea

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 11:11 AM Yahoo!Mail® <alanus1216 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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>
> On Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 11:51 AM, Gaia Pintucci via INDOLOGY <
> indology at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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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