Fish as Food


 
 
Concept Explanation
 

Fish as Food

Fish as Food: Traditional food habits are generally based on locally available items of food.

  • Bengal is a riverine plain which produces plenty of rice and fish.
  • Understandably, these two items figure prominently in the menu of even poor Bengalis.
  • Fishing has always been an important occupation and Bengali literature contains several references to fish.
  • Terracotta plaques on the walls of temples and viharas (Buddhist monasteries) depict scenes of fish being dressed and taken to the market in baskets.
  • Brahmans were not allowed to eat non-vegetarian food.
  • But the popularity of fish in the local diet made the Brahmanical authorities relax this prohibition for the Bengal Brahmans.
  • The Brithaddharma purana,a thirteenth -century sanskrit text from Bengal ,permitted the local Brahmanas to eat certain varities of Fish.
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