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surā

spirituous liquor (surā)

The fermented liquor offered beside the soma in the sautramani: "surayā somaḥ suta āsuto madāya" (VS 19.5), "somasya śuṣmaḥ surayā sutasya" (VS 19.33). Griffith renders it "Wine". The bare stem `surā` is deliberately not an alias: at four characters it is below the sandhi floor, its 116 substring hits are 47% intrusions, and three of its six token hits are the dicing-and-drinking topos of AVS 6.70.1 and RV 7.86.6 rather than an offering.

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