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Tuesday 27 December 2011

JATO



Above is the picture of "JATO" side view and top view respectively. It is a form of grinder and is made up of stone. Pulses, rice and other grains are usually grinded using "JATO" and usually a person is enough to complete the job. People mainly have it inside their house or within the premises of the house. 

It consists of two round stone of which the bottom part is attached to the ground or the floor in the house (as in the top picture) and has a big nail or wood in the centre to keep the top stone in place while grinding (it is visible in the bottom picture in the middle hole). The top part however has two holes in it, one in the middle to keep grains and the other on the side to place a handle for grinding. The grains are grinded using a circular motion with the help of the handle and the person has to be sitting down to do the task.

5 comments:

  1. Thank you very much for this update.... I have created Wikipedia page of Jato.... Please have a look of it.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jato_(Stone_Grinder)

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  2. Thank you so much Binod Ji. It is very important to have a visual dictionary for our future generation in forever accessible medium "the internet".

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