Note 62 — Chapter IV · WORSHIP OF ANCESTORS AND SAINTS.
Reading edition
There are two kinds of preparations which go by the name of kātlān. One is prepared from seven pieces of dry ginger.62 The other is a mixture of suva,63 sunth (dry ginger), gundar (gum arabic), gol (molasses) etc.64 In order to secure the desired effect, the kātlān must be eaten seven times every Sunday or Tuesday seated on the cot of a woman in child-bed.65