Thread by @Shrikantha5

Did Vasco Da Gama bring Cilantro to India?

Another fake story by the catholic church being bust tonight.

Please read on.

#Colonialism #Cilantro #Coriander #Dhania

Cilantro is called Dhānyaka (धान्यक) in Sanskritam. That is how we have the name Dhaniya!

Reference to Dhānyaka (धान्यक) is made under Jvaracikitsā (or “the treatment of fever”) which is part of the 7th-century Mādhavacikitsā, a Sanskrit classical work on Āyurveda.

Vasco came to the party much later and he came to the party empty handed!
But when did the party actually begin!

That answer was provided by Steven Weber and Arunima Kashyap. These are ethnobotanists who studied the food left near the stoves of Farmana archeological site in Harappa civilization. (Haryana)

The site is, hold your breath, 4600 years old! It is from 2600 BC. The party was very, very old. Lots of food was prepared and lots of guests (athithi) were served.

Steven Weber and Arunima Kashyap used sophisticated techniques to analyze what was cooked and they list out following spices.
"mustard, turmeric, ginger, fenugreek, coriander,
garlic, poppy, sesame, garlic and possibly safflower"
We still make curry exactly same way!

They also recovered whole seeds whose picture they published in their paper. A screenshot is provided here!

They also did additional studies as described in the paper and listed out grain/pulse/spice from the Farmana site in a table shown below.
Do you see garlic and eggplant too?
What we eat is entirely from India that is Bharat.

I hosted the article from Weber/Kashyap to Archive.org.

Link below.
archive.org/details/archae…

If you like what I am sharing here, please read about how I bust the myth that chili pepper was brought to India by the Europeans.
Thanks

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