Cooked Rice

Anna (cooked rice) is described as the foremost among prepared foods. Properly cooked rice is sweet in taste, cold in potency, heavy and unctuous in quality. It is nourishing, strengthening, and aphrodisiac. Different types of rice when cooked have varying properties. Old rice (Purana Shali) is lighter and better for digestion compared to new rice. Rice cooked with appropriate amount of water yields different preparations - thick rice (Anna), thin gruel (Peya/Yavagu), and rice water (Manda), each with distinct properties.

• Balya (strengthening)
• Vrishya (aphrodisiac)
• Brumhana (nourishing)

Then, the priest should prepare a bolus of cooked rice in an earthen pot by mixing the oblation with ghee, offering it to the holy fire thrice according to the prescribed methods.

— Charaka Samhita, Sharira Sthana — Human Body & Embryology, Chapter 8: Guidelines for Lineage (Jatisutriya Sharira / जातिसूत्रीय शरीर)

The woman who consumes excessive salty, sour, food heavy to digest, pungent,those causing burning sensation,unctous and fatty diets, meat of domestic and aquatic animals, cooked rice with pulse (krishira), rice cooked with milk (payasa), curd, vinegar (shukta), curd water(mastu), alcohol etc.

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 30: Gynecological Disorders Treatment (Yonivyapat Chikitsa / योनिव्यापत्चिकित्सा)

One who obtains or eats cooked rice, enters a well or the nether world (in dreams) — a healthy person gains disease, and a sick person meets death.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Purva Khanda, Chapter 3: Nadiparichha Adividhi (Pulse Diagnosis etc.)

Alternatively, drinking the warm supernatant water of cooked rice makes one slender.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Parishishtam, Chapter 43: Diet for Obesity (Sthaulya Pathyapathyam)

Alternatively, drinking the warm supernatant water of cooked rice makes one slender.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Parishishtam, Chapter 32: Diet for Obesity (Sthaulya Pathyapathyam)

An offering of cooked rice for spirits (bhutaudana) should be placed in a pit for the Skanda-epilepsy (deity).

— Sushruta Samhita, Uttara Tantra, Chapter 29: Skandapasmarapratishedha