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  • Ramadan
    dietary law
    / Hinduism

    …in the finest manner (pakka). Everyone else takes inferior (kacca) food. Pakka food contains ghee (clarified butter), a very costly fat believed to promote health and virility, and is the only kind that can be offered in feasts to gods, to guests of high status, and to persons who…

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    …in the finest manner (pakka). Everyone else takes inferior (kacca) food. Pakka food contains ghee (clarified butter), a very costly fat believed to promote health and virility, and is the only kind that can be offered in feasts to gods, to guests of high status, and to persons who…

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