Barley
object · 2 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
barley · Yava · divine barley · yava
spoken of as
1 expressionYava“barley”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
Let the curses roam far away, held off from here;
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Personified grain, mythically plowed and grown from honey/vomit, praised as king and physician and used against poison.
Barley is king;
From that the barley grew up;
When you two, O Aśvins, healed the wolf that had drunk honey.
Against Callicles
A crop item on the plaintiff's side that allegedly got wet in a small quantity.
So trivial, men of the jury, was the loss that befell them, yet for this I am made defendant in a suit with damages fixed at a thousand drachmae!
She averred that she saw, and heard from their mother, that some of the barley got wet (she saw them drying it), but not so much as three medimni, and about half a medimnus of wheat flour;