Apūpa
Apūpa · apūpa, “a cake”
Grammar: masculine noun.
Meaning: a cake, glossed in the text as मालपूआ.
In the scriptures: the Bhavishya Purāṇa uses the word for these offerings:
- Apūpas made with khaṇḍa-śarkarā are offered to Bhagavān Sūrya in the Aparājitā Saptamī vrata (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 98).
- For the Āditya-maṇḍala dāna, guḍa is mixed into flour of barley or wheat, cooked well in cow’s ghee, and shaped into a beautiful apūpa like the disc of Sūrya (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 44).
- An apūpa of ghee is the second of the eight pakvānnas of the Budhāshṭamī vrata, offered to Budha (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 54).
- Apūpa cooked in ghee is the gift to a brāhmaṇa on Punarvasu (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 192).
- It is also named among the materials set out for the yajña (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Madhyama Parva, Bhāga 2, Chapters 14–16); in the pūjā of the vidhi Śatānanda tells the Nishāda (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 2, Chapter 27); in the Saubhāgyāshṭaka offered before the Devī in the Rambhā vrata (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapters 18–19); as naivedya in the Rasakalyāṇinī-tṛtīyā vrata (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapters 28–29); among the preparations and foods of Chapters 63 and 65; and among the foods with which brāhmaṇas are fed (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapters 66, 89).
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 98; Madhyama Parva, Bhāga 2, Chapters 14–16; Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 2, Chapter 27; Uttara Parva, Chapters 18–19, 28–29, 44, 54, 63, 65, 66, 89, 192