330. This is the utterance or declaration of the earth herself.
331. Rich with every taste; the idea is that things have six tastes, viz., sweet, sour, etc. The quality of taste is drawn by things from the soil or earth. The tastes inhere in earth, for it is the same earth that produces the sugarcane and the tamarind.
332. Sparsitam is dattam.
333. The Bombay reading adityatastansha is better than the Bengal reading adityataptansha.
334. What Yudhishthira wishes to know is what conjunctions should be utilized for making what particular gifts.
335. Payasa is rice boiled in sugared milk. It is a sort of liquid food that is regarded as very agreeable.
336. Vardhamana, Sarava or Saravika. It is a flat certain cup or dish.
337. Phanita is the inspissated juice of the sugarcane.
338. A prasanga is a basket of bamboo or other material for covering paddy.
339. Rajamasha is a kind of bean. It is the Vinga sinensis, syn. Dilicheos sinensis Linn.