What evidence from the passage best supports the inference that sugar cane had special significance in
the ancient era? Select three options.
you lie down and face a three-cornered fire pot"
"sugar cane was now an ingredient in ceremonies
involving fire
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
One of these early Hindu writings, the Atharva Veda,
speaks of an archer's bow made of sugar cane. It tells
of growing a circle of sugar cane as a kind of sweet
protection for a lover, and it includes specific
instructions on how to use sugar cane. To worship and
request help from Durga, the most important goddess
you lie down and face a three-cornered fire pot. Then,
as you speak the sacred words you place your
offerings in the fire.
Sugar cane was now an ingredient in ceremonies
involving fire. Maybe after many, many offerings a
priest noticed that if the juice of the cane was boiled in
the right way, it crystallized into sweet dark brown
clumps. Perhaps that transformation itself seemed
magicala heated liquid turning into something that
looked like dark grains of sand, in the Atharva Veda
sugar cane is called ikshu which means "something
it crystallized into sweet, dark brown clumps"
Perhaps that transformation itself seemed magical
m sugar cane is called ikshu, which means 'something
that people want
they began to use the name sharkara, which also
meant gravel