Mother and Children Harvest India Rajasthan
by Sue Jacobi
Title
Mother and Children Harvest India Rajasthan
Artist
Sue Jacobi
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Photography - Digital Art
Description
Mother and Children Harvest India Rajasthan.
A wonderful uplifting mom and kids moment in time. In the mustard fields near a village in Rajasthan, India, this farm hand or farmer, a woman, harvests Indian black mustard in the brilliant noon sunlight. She and her fellow workers have left their children in a shady spot nearby, where they can keep an eye on them while they cut the long yellow mustard plants with a sickle. The kids play among themselves, and the older ones keep a watch on the toddlers. In this image, one of the moms takes a break from her harvest chores to bond with her babies and watch them indulgently while they play with her sickle and other tools. These mustard seeds are important herbs in many Indian regional foods, and they are an essential ingredient in any Indian kitchen.. All over India, mustard seeds, along with other herbs and spices such as curry leaves, cumin seeds, chilles, onion and garlic, are fried in some oil and added as garnish to many dishes to give lots of flavour.
Mustard seeds are the small round seeds of various mustard plants. The seeds are usually about 1 or 2 mm in diameter. Mustard seeds may be colored from yellowish white to black. The seeds can come from three different plants: black mustard (Brassica nigra), brown Indian mustard (Brassica juncea), and white mustard (Brassica hirta / Sinapis alba).
In the New Testament of the Judeo-Christian Bible, the mustard seed is used by Jesus in the parable of the mustard seed as a model for the kingdom of God which initially starts small, but grows to be the biggest of all garden plants. Faith is also spoken about in the context of a mustard seed.
The earliest reference to mustard is in India from a story of Gautama Buddha in the fifth century BC. Gautama Buddha told the story of the grieving mother (Kisa Gotami) and the mustard seed. When a mother loses her only son, she takes his body to the Buddha to find a cure. The Buddha asks her to bring a handful of mustard seeds from a family that has never lost a child, husband, parent, or friend. When the mother is unable to find such a house in her village, she realizes death is common to all, and she cannot be selfish in her grief. The Buddha stated that if an individual were to pick a single mustard seed every hundred years from a seven-mile cube worth of mustard seeds, then by the time the last seed is picked, the age of the world cycle would still continue. (If a mustard seed is 3 mm in diameter, then taking one seed every 100 years from a seven-mile cube of seeds, would take 936 quintillion years, 68 billion times the age of the universe.
Jewish texts compare the knowable universe to the size of a mustard seed to demonstrate the world's insignificance and to teach humility. The Jewish philosopher Nahmanides mentions the universe expanded from the time of its creation, in which it was the size of a mustard seed.
Regional usage of mustard seeds in India
Mustard seeds are also known as Mohari in Marathi, aavalu in Telugu, kadugu in Tamil and Malayalam, sasive in Kannada. A variety of Indian pickle consisting mainly of mango, red chilli powder, and aavaa pindi (powdered mustard seed) preserved in mustard oil, is popular in southern India with its origin in Andhra Pradesh.
These mustard seeds are known in Hindi and Urdu as sarson (Indian colza, Brassica rapa subsp. trilocularis, syn. Brassica campestris var. sarson) and in Punjabi as sarron. These are used as a spice in Northern India and Nepal. The seeds are usually roasted until they pop. They are also planted to grow saag (greens) which are stir-fried and eaten as a vegetable preparation, sarson ka saag (sarron da saag in Punjabi).
In Maharashtra, it is called as mohair, and is used frequently in Maharani's recipes. Sarson ka tel (mustard oil) is used for body massage during extreme winters, as it is assumed to keep the body warm and moist.
Cultivation
Mustard seeds generally take upto ten days to germinate if placed under the proper conditions, which include a cold atmosphere and relatively moist soil. Mature mustard plants grow into shrubs.
Mustard grows well in temperate regions. Major producers of mustard seeds include Canada, Hungary, Great Britain, India, Pakistan and the United States. Brown and black mustard seeds return higher yields than their yellow counterparts.
Mustard seed is a rich source of oil and protein. The seed has oil as high as 46-48%, and whole seed meal has 43.6% protein.
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Sue Jacobi
Dan, thank you for the feature of my Harvest Farmer Mother and Children artwork, on the Homepage of Awesome Art, 7-19-15