[Advaita-l] Wonderful list of adjectives for samsAravRkSha

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Namaste Venkateshji,

I understand what you are saying. I'd this trouble as well, since we too
make a delicacy by soaking chopped inner-stem of banana plant in [liquid]
jaggery. :)

However, Bhashyakara rejects it being *substantial* not by taking it as the
stem to eat but in comparison to a trunk of a tree, which is otherwise a
hard wood substance. So there is nothing to disagree with.



Kind rgds,
--Praveen R. Bhat
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2017-02-17 12:25 GMT+05:30 Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
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> Namaste
>
> One doubt.  कदलीस्तम्भवत् निःसारः non-substantial being like a stem of
> banana
>
> I don't agree because the stem of plantain stem is used for making
> delicious vegetable Kootu for food. See recipe -
>
> http://www.padhuskitchen.com/2010/08/plantain-stem-recipe-
> plantain-stem.html
>
> As a matter of fact every part of plantain plant is useful - leaves,
> fruits and stem. There is no useless part.
>