Every morning, a dose of pure gingelly (Sesamum indicum) oil, mixed with white of egg, is administered.
In addition to this worship, they perform the Rishi and Pithru tharpanam by offering water, gingelly (Sesamum indicum) seeds, and rice.
The latter they mix with sesamum oil, and then eat as a delicacy.
Pinyaka is the cake of mustard seed or sesamumafter the oil has been pressed out.
Sesamum is called Til by the Parbatiyas, and Hamo by the Newars.
Tila-Tandulaka, or the mixture of sesamum seed with rice.
The latter is called the feast of 'six sesamum acts,' for sesamum is a holy plant, and in each act of this rite it plays a part.
Sâ.mkhya says that the oil was already existent in the sesamum and not in the stone, and that it is thus that oil can be got from sesamum and not from the stone.
This order contains the Sesamum orientale, the seeds of which yield sesamum or gingilie oil, principally used in the manufacture of soap.
Rice is the chief crop in the plains, tea, cotton, sesamum and hill rice in the hills.
The Kavirondo cultivate sesamum and make an oil from its seeds which they burn in little clay lamps.
He boils the rice, barley, and sesamum in a brass vessel, throws the ghi over them when they are dressed, and eats the whole.
In Bombay [37] on all new moon days Brahmans offer oblations of water and sesamum seed to their ancestors, and those who are Agnihotris and do the fire sacrifice kindle the sacred fire on all new and full moon days.
When the pustules are mature, the gardener dips a thorn of the Karaunda (Carissa) in sesamum oil and punctures each one.
The lamps are filled with sesamum oil, and red wicks wound round sticks of the sesamum plant rest in the lamp saucers.
Defn: Either of two annual herbaceous plants of the genus Sesamum (S.
The swollen sesamum seeds, rendered fragrant by contact with the flowers, are then submitted to the action of the press, by which their bland oil is obtained strongly impregnated with the aroma of the flowers.
Each woman takes home with her some of the sesamum offered to the snake, which they sprinkle with the recitation of a spell in their houses as a means of driving away venomous snakes.
On the fifth day after a death they offer cooked food, water and sesamum to the crows, in whose bodies the souls of the dead are believed to reside.
The food and water are given to satisfy the hunger and thirst of the soul, while the sesamum is supposed to give it coolness and quench its heat.
One who pours sesamum oil on his clothes and begs.
The people of Szafra usually adulterate it with sesamum oil, and tar.
Footnote 4: Tila or tala is the Singhalese name for sesamum from which the natives express the gingeli oil.
The maihar or small wedding-cakes of wheat fried insesamum oil are distributed to all members of the caste present at the wedding.
Arsenic and potash are also used for different fireworks, and sesamum oil is added to prevent smoke.
Presents of til or sesamum are given to the Joshi, owing to which the day is called Til Sankrant.
It is from the latter that the sesamum or gingelly oil of commerce is obtained.
An oil resembling that of sesamum is obtained from the seed of Guizotea oleifera and Abyssinica, a plant introduced from Abyssinia, and common in Bengal.
They are as worthless as grains of sesamum without kernel.
Infantile diseases If a baby, especially a girl, has much hair on its body, they make a cake of gram-flour and rub it with sesamum oil all over the body, and this is supposed to remove the hair.
Wheat-cakes are fried in ghi (clarified butter) as a luxury, and at other times in sesamum oil.
So they hit upon sesamum oil as a substitute, which must be pressed for ceremonial purposes in a bamboo basket by unmarried boys using a plough-yoke.
The name comes from the Sanskrit tailika or taila, oil, and this word, is derived from the tilli or sesamum plant.
On the plates are heaped rice, cakes of wheat fried in butter, and of husked urad pulse cooked with tilli or sesamum oil, and the pulse of gram and lentils.
Tilli or sesamum is called sweet oil; it is much eaten by Brahmans and others in the Maratha country, and is always used for rubbing on the hair and body.
These are usually boiled and then mixed into a salad with linseed or sesamum oil and flavoured with salt or powdered chillies, these last being the Kunbi's indispensable condiment.
On days when they are shaved they plaster the head with soft black earth, and then wash it off and rub their bodies with a little linseed or sesamum oil, or, if they can afford it, with cocoanut oil.
Small balls of wheat-flour are kneaded and fried in an earthen pan with sesamum oil by the eldest woman of the family.
Every morning the chief mourner goes to the grave, and makes offerings of boiled rice, gingelly (Sesamum indicum) seeds, and karuka grass.
These were inclined at an angle of about 60°; the pods of the sesamum plants hanging on one facet, so that the frames resembled enormous brushes.
Large quantities of sesamum were grown and carefully harvested, the crop being collected in oblong frames about twenty feet long and twelve feet high.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sesamum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
