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)
Neither to be brought low by curses nor to be pierced through — I release for you the great armor that is Yava.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Personified grain, mythically plowed and grown from honey/vomit, praised as king and physician and used against poison.
This — the straw of barley, of wheat, of sesame, of rice, of barley — by the divine power of barley I make the poison devoid of potency.
He who, for delight, having dug open the bee-nest, brought forth honey — from that barley was born;
The gods plowed this barley mingled with honey on the sandbank of the Sarasvatī.
Against Callicles
A crop item on the plaintiff's side that allegedly got wet in a small quantity.
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;
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!