We inferred from our ancestors that, the intaen food of a person solely determines that person’s character. Hence, three different characters are correlated to three types of foods and we have already seen the first two in previous posts. In that series, we are going to see about thamasa food in today’s post.
Let us first see about what is thamasa food? And its characteristics as follows:
Uncontrolled anger, uncontrolled lust, more sleep, vigorous idiocy, instability are the inherent characteristics of thamasa food intakers.
People with the above characteristics are arrogant, madly short tempered, cannot think and judge equally and mostly they will be slave to senses and do silly crimes.
Even our modern science, after various researches accept the fact that the foods plays major role in one’s character and behavior. From the list of foods distinguished under three types, we perceive the type we intaken so far and the character it imbibes in us, which might lead to personal character upgradation.
Following are the list of food products characterized under thamasa:
1. Onion
2. White Garlic
3. Drumstick leaf
4. Pasalai leaf
5. Kalavai keerai
6. Aarai keerai
7. Siru keerai
8. Potato
9. Peruvalli kizhangu
10. Radish
11. Siruvalli kizhangu
12. Maravalli kizhangu
13. Drumstick
14. Peerkkai
15. Sword bean
16. Mochai
17. Bottle guard
18. Avarai (a type of bean)
19. Horse gram
20. Red cholam
21. Black cholam
22. Green peas
23. Black-eyed peas
24. Kambu (Pearl millet)
25.Varaku (Kodo millet)
26. Raagi (Finger millet)
27. Boiled rice
28. Brinjal
29. Drumstick flower
30. Eechavellam (Jaggery from Phnix dactoeylifera)
31. Panaivellam (Jaggery from Palmyra)
32. Palmyra candy
33. Kal types (liquour from coconut, palm like trees)
34. Unripen palm fruit
35. Castor oil
36. Paruppu keerai (Chenopodium album)
37. Pulicha keerai (Hibiscus cannabinus)
38. Kaasini keerai
39. Palm fruit
40. Custard apple
41. Pannaik keerai
42. Cashew fruit
43. Buffalo milk
44. Buffalo curd
45. Buffalo butter
46. Buffalo ghee
Till now, we have seen about the ancient Tamilians food habits, types of foods and its character imbibing qualities.
In future, we will see about how to intake these foods and also about its merits and demerits according to Siththar’s view.
Stay tuned!!
Original – www.siththarkal.com
Translated by Lalithambika Rajasekaran
