ABSTRACT
Salt has śakti or kudrat. In Kanarese they say, ‘There is no better relative than a mother, and no better taste than that of salt.’ It is supposed that everything in the universe contains salt. Uppe uppu, ‘Salt, salt and nothing else’, is a Kanarese phrase. In Gujarāt a handsome person is said to have a ‘saltish face’; ‘on his face is plenty of salt’. An Arabic word, malih, is used in Sind to mean both ‘saltish’ and ‘handsome’.
