Hookah/Sheesha was smoked 2100 years ago in India?

[W.11]

A terracotta art shows a lady smoking using a pipe and apparatus which appears similar to hookah/sheesha in 1st century BCE. opium or cannabis was smoked in south asia before tobacco was imported from america.

Some scholars declare hookah/sheesha as iranian, but a curious sanskrit word Narguila is used in many european/central asian countries.

In Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, na[r]gile (на[р]гиле) is used to refer to the pipe,[27] while šiša (шиша) refers to the tobacco that is smoked in it.[citation needed] The pipes there often have one or two mouth pieces. The flavored tobacco, created by marinating cuts of tobacco in a multitude of flavored molasses, is placed above the water and covered by pierced foil with hot coals placed on top, and the smoke is drawn through cold water to cool and filter it. In Albania, the hookah is called "lula" or "lulava". In Romania, it is called narghilea.

"Narguile"[28] is the common word in Spain used to refer to the pipe, although "cachimba"[29] is also used, along with "shisha" by Moroccan immigrants in Spain. The word "Narguile" is also the word used in Brazilian Portuguese.

Tail part of a toy cart preserving the standing figure of a women with right hand placed on the head as if engaged in toilet. Her left hand is raised up to the shoulder holding same object from which shoots out a pipe like object reaching her mouth. Her lower garment appears to be a transparent sari. There are three holes two for a rod to hold the wheels and thirds for string.

http://museumsofindia.gov.in/repository/record/alh_ald-AM-TC-K5430-556

 

[dalvash]

I believe the earliest recorded use of cannabis was in China 5000 years ago.

 

[W.11]

i was not specifically referring to smoking cannabis but smoking using the apparatus which is today called hookah/sheesha or water pipe.

regards

 

[maxpayne]

question is, is sheesha harmful or.not? anyone died due to sheesha?

 

[dalvash]

i was not specifically referring to smoking cannabis but smoking using the apparatus which is today called hookah/sheesha or water pipe.

regards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bong#History

Excavations of a kurgan in Russia in 2013 revealed that Scythian tribal chiefs used gold bongs 2400 years ago to smoke cannabis and opium. The kurgan was discovered when construction workers were clearing land for the construction of a power line.[4]

The use of a water pipe for smoking was introduced in China during the late Ming Dynasty (16th century), along with tobacco,[5] through Persia and the Silk Road. By the Qing Dynasty, it became the most popular method to smoke tobacco, but became less popular since the Republic era. While typically employed by commoners, the water pipe is known to have been preferred by Empress Dowager Cixi over snuff bottles or other methods of intake. According to the Imperial Household Department, she was buried with at least three water pipes; some of her collections can be seen in the Palace Museum.

The water pipe employed since the Qing dynasty can be divided into two types: the homemade bamboo bong commonly made and used by country people, and a more elegant metal version employed by Chinese merchants, urbanites, and nobility. Metal utensils are typically made out of bronze or brass, the nobility version of silver and decorated with jewels. Typically, the metal version is made out of the following components:

• The water pipe itself, a single-piece construct consisting of the bowl-stem, the water container, and a drawtube at least 3 inches, but some can be up to 12 inches in length. Some are straight with a "Joint" (Sandblasted top part of stem, usually about 1 inch long, and all the way around, tapered or cone shaped, so the tapered, or "cone shaped" bowl will fit in)some are bent to resemble a crane. The size of the bowl is similar to that of a one-hitter, typically the width of a thumbnail or smaller.
• The tobacco container with a lid.
• A pipe rack small enough to be held by one hand, and consisting of two large holes for the tobacco container and the water pipe. It may have smaller holes to hold various pipe tools.

During a smoking session, the user may keep all equipment inside the rack and just hold the entire assembly (rack, pipe, and container) in one hand, lighting the bowl with a slow-burning paper wick (纸煤) lit over a coal stove. Unlike in North America and the Southern Hemisphere, the water pipe is typically employed by older generations. [6]

 

[W.11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bong#History

Excavations of a kurgan in Russia in 2013 revealed that Scythian tribal chiefs used gold bongs 2400 years ago to smoke cannabis and opium. The kurgan was discovered when construction workers were clearing land for the construction of a power line.[4]

The use of a water pipe for smoking was introduced in China during the late Ming Dynasty (16th century), along with tobacco,[5] through Persia and the Silk Road. By the Qing Dynasty, it became the most popular method to smoke tobacco, but became less popular since the Republic era. While typically employed by commoners, the water pipe is known to have been preferred by Empress Dowager Cixi over snuff bottles or other methods of intake. According to the Imperial Household Department, she was buried with at least three water pipes; some of her collections can be seen in the Palace Museum.

The water pipe employed since the Qing dynasty can be divided into two types: the homemade bamboo bong commonly made and used by country people, and a more elegant metal version employed by Chinese merchants, urbanites, and nobility. Metal utensils are typically made out of bronze or brass, the nobility version of silver and decorated with jewels. Typically, the metal version is made out of the following components:

• The water pipe itself, a single-piece construct consisting of the bowl-stem, the water container, and a drawtube at least 3 inches, but some can be up to 12 inches in length. Some are straight with a "Joint" (Sandblasted top part of stem, usually about 1 inch long, and all the way around, tapered or cone shaped, so the tapered, or "cone shaped" bowl will fit in)some are bent to resemble a crane. The size of the bowl is similar to that of a one-hitter, typically the width of a thumbnail or smaller.
• The tobacco container with a lid.
• A pipe rack small enough to be held by one hand, and consisting of two large holes for the tobacco container and the water pipe. It may have smaller holes to hold various pipe tools.

During a smoking session, the user may keep all equipment inside the rack and just hold the entire assembly (rack, pipe, and container) in one hand, lighting the bowl with a slow-burning paper wick (纸煤) lit over a coal stove. Unlike in North America and the Southern Hemisphere, the water pipe is typically employed by older generations. [6]

what is your point?

regards

 

[dalvash]

what is your point?

regards

just sharing historical information on water pipes

 

[W.11]

just sharing historical information on water pipes

the ''Kurgan'' one is not a water pipe, its just a bowl.

regards

 

[Galaxy D]

I believe the earliest recorded use of cannabis was in China 5000 years ago.

Cannabis use is mentioned in the Atharva veda book 11 hymn 8 or verse 15 [ kand 11 sukta 8, 3177]. Its one of the 5 essential plants in the Vedas. Others being Halfa grass, oats, paddy, and Soma.

Distribution map of wild cannabis will show that it grew wild in both India and china.