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Book 1. (11 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	118	The Older Tarl and I may have drunk too much of that fermented brew concocted with fiendish skill from the yellow grain, sa-tarna, and called Pagar-sa-tarna, Pleasure of the Life-Daughter, but almost always "paga" for short.
3	109	Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste, and the staple crop was a yellow grain called sa-tarna, or Life-Daughter.
5	49	The next would be the Planting Feast of sa-tarna, the Life-Daughter, celebrated early in the growing season to insure a good harvest.
5	154	But an hour before midnight, on the day I knew was the Planting Feast of sa-tarna, I climbed again to the saddle of my tarn, drew back on the one-strap, and rose above the lush trees of the swamp forest.
6	29	One of them must be the Home Stone of Ar, but which? How could I tell it from the others, the Home Stones of those cities which had fallen to Ar? Yes! It would be the one that would be red with Ka-la-na, that would be sprinkled with the seeds of grain! I felt the stones in frenzy, but several were d...
7	85	About three or four pasangs distant, through the thinning swamp trees, I could see the verdant meadows of Ar's sa-tarna land.
7	103	"Let's go," I said to the girl, and I made for the fields of sa-tarna.
7	128	Beyond it, some hundred yards away, I could see the border of a yellow field of sa-tarna and a yellow thicket of Ka-la-na trees.
8	19	Now she, like all other members of the household of Marlenus, slave or free, would be subjected to the vengeance of the outraged citizens, citizens who had marched in the processions of the Ubar in the days of his glory, carrying flasks of Ka-la-na wine and sheaves of sa-tarna grain, s...
9	1	Kazrak of Port Kar We traveled together through the night, making our way through the silvery yellow fields of sa-tarna, fugitives under the three moons of Gor.
9	61	The fields of sa-tarna were thinning out.

Book 2. (6 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	10	Far to my left I saw a splendid field of sa-tarna, bending beautifully in the wind, that tall yellow grain that forms a staple in the Gorean diet.
9	37	I decided, if worse came to worst, that I could always go to a simple Paga Tavern where, if those of Tharna resembled those of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, one might, curled in a rug behind the low tables, unobtrusively spend the night for the price of a pot of paga, a strong, fermented drink brewed from the ye...
9	39	Paga is a corruption of Pagar-sa-tarna, which means Pleasure of the Life-Daughter.
14	112	Could it remember the Vosk, like a silver ribbon beneath its wings; could it recall fighting the blasts and upwinds of the rugged Voltai Range; could it recall Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, Ko-ro-ba's gleaming towers, or the lights of Ar as they had blazed that night of the Planting Feast of <...
23	92	As we flew, many were the fields of charred sa-tarna we saw below us.
26	40	On market day I saw a peasant, his sack of sa-tarna meal on his back, whose sandals were tied with silver straps.

Book 3. (3 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	15	Beyond the Sullage and the bosk steak there was the inevitable flat, rounded loaf of the yellow sa-tarna bread.
7	27	"Who are you?" asked the girl, her accent suggesting the sa-tarna fields above Ar and toward the Tamber Gulf.
31	182	I supposed there might be tidal waves in distant Thassa, that crags in the Sardar and the Voltai and Thentis Ranges might be collapsing, that mountains might be falling and new ones rising, that the sa-tarna fields might be broken apart, that towers of cities might be falling, that the...

Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	58	I passed fields that were burning, and burning huts of peasants, the smoking shells of sa-tarna granaries, the shattered, slatted coops for vulos, the broken walls of keeps for the small, long-haired domestic verr, less belligerent and sizable than the wild verr of the Voltai Ranges.
6	14	I was astonished, for this girl was dressed not as a Gorean, not as a girl of any of the cities of the Counter-Earth, not as a peasant of the sa-tarna fields or the vineyards where the Ta grapes are raised, not even as a girl of the fierce Wagon Peoples.

Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	138	Ho-Sorl, after several races, gave Phyllis a coin, ordering her to find a vendor and buy him some sa-tarna bread smeared with honey.
17	1	Kajuralia "Kajuralia!" cried the slave girl hurling a basket of sa-tarna flour on me, and turning and running.

Book 6. (2 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	98	The dried bosk meat in the tin, and the bread with it, yellow sa-tarna bread, now stale, was almost gone.
9	344	There were great quantities of the yellow sa-tarna bread, in its rounded, six-part loaves.

Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	993	He thrust a huge piece of the yellow sa-tarna bread into my hands.
11	1084	And his men had fired dozens of fields, destroying sa-tarna grains.
11	1270	sa-tarna fields ripened in their yellow beauty, and caravans passed with safety.
13	755	He thrust yellow sa-tarna bread into my mouth.

Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
5	20	She had been ashore to buy some loaves of sa-tarna bread.
5	63	I tied a note about her neck, reading, Two loaves of sa-tarna.
5	87	But now, about her neck, tied with the baker's knot, fastened behind the back of her neck, was a sack of two loaves of sa-tarna bread.
8	172	Arn was chewing on a piece of dry sa-tarna bread.

Book 9. (16 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	6	It was long since I had tasted the fiery paga of the sa-tarna fields north of the Vosk.
3	34	"Are you waiting for the sa-tarna harvest!" The man turned away and began to pull the gold hangings from the walls.
4	29	Like the bondmaids, she had been fed only on cold sa-tarna porridge and scraps of dried parsit fish.
4	229	Another of the bondmaids was then freed to mix the bondmaid gruel, mixing fresh water with sa-tarna meal, and then stirring in the raw fish.
4	258	The bondmaids did not much care for their gruel, unsweetened, mudlike sa-tarna meal, with raw fish.
4	322	Choking, the proud Aelgifu swallowed the thick gruel, that of dampened sa-tarna meal and raw fish, the gruel of bondmaids.
6	51	In them were growing, small at this season, shafts of sa-tarna; too, there would be peas, and beans, cabbages and onions, and patches of the golden sul, capable of surviving at this latitude.
7	41	The northern sa-tarna, in its rows, yellow and sprouting, was about ten inches high.
7	46	The yield of the fall-sown sa-tarna is, statistically, larger than that of the spring-sown varieties.
7	51	sa-tarna is the major crop of the Forkbeard's lands, but, too, there are many gardens, and, as I have noted, bosk and verr, too, are raised.
7	69	Earlier, before he had begun his tour of inspection, Pudding had come to him, and knelt before him, holding a plate of sa-tarna loaves.
9	109	He examined her with great care, as he had his sa-tarna, and his animals, when he had inspected his farm.
10	314	We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever...
11	169	"sa-tarna," it said.
11	259	"I have here," called Svein Blue Tooth, "a bucket of sa-tarna grain.
11	267	It was a round, flat, six-sectioned loaf of sa-tarna bread.

Book 10. (30 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	32	At the oasis will be grown a hybrid, brownish sa-tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; most sa-tarna is yellow; and beans, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carr...
12	168	Their word, imperiously delivered, with the confidence of unquestioned command, doubtless backed by the whips and scimitars of male guards outside, served as law to the inmates of Tarna's seraglio; when they spoke, men obeyed; when they spoke sharply, men feared; in the seraglio, backed by the power...
12	396	I do not have such thoughts! I am Tarna! I am Tarna!" She turned away, to the window.
2	43	In turn, from the oases the nomads receive, most importantly, sa-tarna grain and the Bazi tea.
2	45	sa-tarna is the main staple of the nomads.
8	85	sa-tarna grain spilled to the ground.
11	1	Red Rock, Where Salt is Shared; Hassan and I Encounter Tarna "You do not wear bells on your kaiila harness!" said the man, threatening us with his lance.
11	17	We had scarcely moved, save to pass about a verrskin of water and a leather pouch of sa-tarna meal.
11	525	"Tarna!" we heard.
11	526	"Tarna!" Hassan went to the edge of the wall looking down into the now-blazing stable yard.
11	576	"Tarna!" we heard.
11	577	"Tarna!" They reined in, almost below the edge of the roof.
11	579	"Tarna!" we heard.
11	589	"Yes, Tarna," said lieutenants, and they wheeled their mounts, going to their men.
11	625	I saw Tarna, the leader of the raiders, standing in her stirrups, scimitar high, urging her men forward, then joining in the pursuit.
11	702	"Discard your weapons," said Tarna.
11	709	"Tarna?" he asked.
11	714	"Yes, Tarna," said the man.
12	1	What Occurred in Tarna's Kasbah; Hassan and I Decide to Take Our Leave From that Place I rolled about, on my back, splashing in the water.
12	7	I was appreciative of this hospitality in the male seraglio of the kasbah of Tarna, bandit chieftain of the Tahari.
12	16	"Is your mistress, Tarna, pretty?" I asked the tall dark-haired girl.
12	20	"Hurry!" Four days ago, at dawn, Tarna, at the head of her men, left the Oasis of the Battle of Red Rock in flames.
12	28	As Tarna had left Red Rock, not looking back, straight in the saddle, burnoose swelling in the morning wind over the sand, I had marched beside her, stripped, wrists manacled behind my back, chained by the neck to her stirrup.
12	33	The location of the kasbah of Tarna, bandit chieftain of the Tahari, her lair, was secret.
12	37	I at Tarna's own, by her boot.
12	49	Suddenly Tarna kicked her kaiila in the flanks and bolted from the column.
12	80	Soon Tarna, with her men, and loot and slaves, entered the great gate of her fortress.
12	85	I had not, because of the purple sand veil worn by Tarna, which she had looped loosely about her face, well looked upon her.
12	107	There were several of Tarna's males sitting about, in silken tunics, some with jewelry, curious about Hassan and myself.
12	131	What man would want his collar on anything less precious? "Yet, Tarna," I suggested, "does not seem to be obtuse".

Book 11. (8 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
9	682	The sa-tarna was in danger of drought.
9	1975	sa-tarna bread was brought forth and heated.
16	122	But his heavy hand thrust bread in my mouth, crusts of sa-tarna bread, wadding it in.
27	163	The pagas mentioned by Busebius were all, of course, sa-tarna pagas, of various sorts and localities, varying largely in the blend.
27	257	"Is it not time to harvest the sa-tarna?" "I thought you might have forgotten," said Thurnus.
27	270	"It is time to harvest the sa-tarna".
27	278	The sa-tarna grows impatient".
27	406	"The sa-tarna must be harvested," he said.

Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	484	Free tarsk and roast bosk were being served, and sa-tarna bread and Ta wine, from the famed Ta grapes of the Cosian terraces.

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
22	317	"It is a small dish," said the Lady Florence, "the white meat of roast vulos, prepared in a sauce of spiced sa-tarna and Ta wine".

Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	55	I stepped aside as a string of eight peasants, with bundles of sa-tarna grain on their shoulders, made their way toward the wharves.
23	177	She offered me a silver tray on which, hot and steaming, were wedges of Gorean bread, made from sa-tarna grain.
29	226	Tasdron had arranged them in Victoria, on the pretense of fetching a consignment of sa-tarna from Siba, to be brought to the Brewery of Lucian, near Fina, east of Victoria, with which brewery he occasionally did business.

Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	194	"It is proposed that the sa-tarna quay in the south harbor be extended.
2	226	"Another possibility," Samos was saying, "would be a loan to the sa-tarna merchants, at a reduced rate of interest.
6	145	Another then snatched at a gravy-sopped wedge of yellow sa-tarna bread.
19	591	Grunt, from his own stores, brought forth some dried, pressed biscuits, baked in Kailiauk from sa-tarna flour.

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
9	231	Tributes, in part, are levied in terms of them, along with gold and sa-tarna grain.

Book 19. (5 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	178	"Those are sa-tarna wagons," said Drusus, "bringing grain to the city".
12	9	"It seems a sa-tarna wagon was fleeing before the approaching enemy, seeking to reach the city before being overtaken," said a man.
16	9	On the first night I had crept forth and, from his pack, after he was asleep, stole some meat and sa-tarna bread.
16	332	Then, while the other fellow took his place on the wagon box and started the ponderous draft beast into motion, he gave me two generous pieces of bread, two full wedges of sa-tarna bread, a fourth of a loaf.
20	189	"There is some fear for the sa-tarna crop, because of the great deal of rain.

Book 20. (8 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	150	They can destroy sa-tarna fields and force their way into granaries.
10	427	It was a long, yellow, closely woven sa-tarna sack.
10	443	Indeed, I have never seen anyone wear a sa-tarna sack better".
12	659	The other members of the troupe, now, and the slaves, and Lady Yanina, in her gown fashioned from a sa-tarna sack, gathered around.
13	4	"I had warned you," had moaned Boots, in his camp, "but you would not listen!" Five days ago I had been returning to the camp of Boots Tarsk-Bit, coming back from a nearby village where I had gone to fetch sa-tarna grain, from which the girls, back at the camp, using stones and flat ro...
13	22	The sack of sa-tarna grain was dragged from my shoulders.
15	125	Indeed, she had been brought in on a chain by Flaminius at the same time, marched at the stirrup of one of his men, barefoot, her wrists bound behind her, wearing only a sack, that which had been her common garment in the camp, that in which I had put her long ago for my amusement, that which had on...
22	314	On such festivals as the Planting Feast it was even she who was sometimes permitted to honor the Home Stone, sprinkling upon it the richest Ka-la-na, and the finest of sa-tarna grains.

Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
3	64	The wagon's lading was sa-tarna bread, and also, incidentally, sa-tarna meal and flour.
2	216	She took two more wedges of yellow sa-tarna bread.
3	154	"You would not get much here," he said, "except sa-tarna meal and such".
3	259	There another sa-tarna wagon had stopped.
20	70	I bought some wedges of sa-tarna bread and slices of dried tarsk meat, taking some and giving the rest to Boabissia and Hurtha.

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
20	201	An organization of great farms, acting in concert, of course, could reduce competition, and eventually regulate prices rather as they pleased, particularly with regard to staples such as sa-tarna and Suls.

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	334	Most sa-tarna is now ground in mills, between stones, the top stone usually turned by water power, but sometimes by a tharlarion, or slaves.
12	147	"The next time I drew up the basket," she said, "there was a very specific question, concealed in a wedge of sa-tarna bread.

Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	203	Similarly, should the troops wheel to the sides, charging, blades drawn, they might have slaughtered thousands, harvesting the crowds, trapped by their own numbers, like sa-tarna.
27	347	An analogy would be the practice of cutting the round, flat Gorean loaves of sa-tarna bread into eight pieces.

Book 27. (4 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	750	He must guard every tarsk-bit, as an urt its last sa-tarna seed.
18	253	"Boil sa-tarna.
19	518	She knew it would be done with her as masters wished, as it would be with a verr or a sack of sa-tarna flour.
20	695	Ellen was then, bound as she was, eased, feet first, into a long, burlaplike sa-tarna sack, which was tied shut over her head.

Book 29. (3 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	501	She rushed to it as a vulo to sa-tarna".
19	140	"His stroke can descend like lightning, cutting in two a grain of sa-tarna placed on the forehead of a man, without creasing the skin," said another.
23	80	There are rice fields on Gor, in the vicinity of Bazi, famed for its teas, but rice is not as familiar on Gor as the grain, sa-tarna.

Book 30. (14 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
7	281	I could smell fresh sa-tarna bread, roast bosk.
12	202	Wedges of sa-tarna bread were next distributed, and a half larma to each man, useful in prolonged voyages, a precaution against weakness and bleeding.
12	237	"More sa-tarna!" called a man, and the girls began, again, with the exception of the chastened Alcinoë, to serve.
12	254	Later, I took some sa-tarna from the table.
12	257	I thrust the sa-tarna into her mouth.
15	195	As Tyrtaios made his way forward, he passed a slave girl, making her way aft, a small sa-tarna pannier on her back.
15	216	But, too, aside from her delight at being recognized, and summoned, she seemed uneasy, even frightened, perhaps because the sa-tarna in the small pannier on her back might be warm, wrapped in napkins, and bound for an officers' mess.
15	255	I could see the white napkins in which the sa-tarna loaves were wrapped, through the wicker of the pannier.
22	310	More easily might the stand of delicate sa-tarna turn back the scythe.
24	367	"I was roped, raging, and lowered to the wharf, helpless, while they laughed, like a bag of sa-tarna".
26	13	"Our fellows will harvest them like sa-tarna, split them like tospits, crush them like dried larmas," said another.
26	97	The staple in the Twelve Islands, which is actually far more than twelve, is not sa-tarna, but rice.
33	45	Commonly a slave is held on her belly, over the left shoulder, her head to the rear, rather as other goods might be conveyed, sacks of sa-tarna, and such.
36	8	For example, exquisite Pani ceramics, intricate carvings, and dyed silks, produced in the castle shops of Lord Temmu might bring silver in Brundisium, and be sold for gold in Ar and Turia, and the silver from Brundisium, in Brundisium, of course, might be exchanged for sinew, arrow points, fletching...

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	984	"Golden hair," he said, "sparkling as ripe sa-tarna".

Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	226	As my resources had been considerably replenished the previous evening, I had breakfasted well, on larma, vulo eggs, fried sul, roast bosk, sa-tarna, and even black wine, the beans for which, I supposed, derived from the far slopes of the Thentis mountains, and may have been brought we...
11	39	A small sack of grain, commonly sa-tarna, the Life Daughter, is often carried in the pack, or at one's belt.
20	177	"You have seen the loading of cargoes, the great casks, the bags of sa-tarna and suls, crates of bitter tospits, paga and ka-la-na packed in straw, medicines, salves and unguents, endless streams of supplies".

Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
12	23	She is well aware that she is an object, a commodity, and that her value is as quantifiable, objectively, given market conditions and buyers, as that of other objects, or commodities, for example, in terms of coins, tarsks, sa-tarna, rice, or such.
37	18	"Yes," I said, "and as Thassa, as fields of sa-tarna, as the crags of the Voltai, the skerries of bleak Torvaldsland, the steaming flower-strewn basin of the Ua, beyond Schendi, the gleaming stars of the sky".

Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	4	The miller's man, at intervals, from his ladder, would pour the grain, sa-tarna, the "life daughter," into the opening on the top of the stone, and the stone, when turning, would press down upon it, and grind it, the resultant flour, by means of three descending troughs, being gathered...
11	60	For the most part, however, sa-tarna, harvested and threshed, was brought in by peasants, milled, and carried away by peasants.
11	106	Warriors might perform martial exercises to music, in the manner of Pyrrhic dances, advancing, withdrawing, wheeling about, and such, brandishing weaponry; athletes might train to music; sa-tarna might be harvested to music; grain might be threshed to music, galleys might be rowed to m...
13	58	Had this something to do with me? Was I somehow different? If so, how, in what way? Once, when I was laboring in a field, sickle in hand, with others, harvesting sa-tarna, a great shadow, as of a cloud, raced across the golden grain.
13	71	"Down!" cried a master, "into the grain!" I and the others quickly crouched down, well concealed, for ripened sa-tarna, with its golden, nodding heads, can grow to the chest of a tall man.
13	156	In the sa-tarna field, I had once helped myself to a dipper of water from the field bucket and I had been foot switched, put to my belly, my legs held up by two slaves, the switch applied to the soles of my bare feet until I wept with pain and begged for mercy.
49	104	One advantage of extending a campaign to the early fall is that, at that time, the enemy's sa-tarna is ready for harvest.
50	275	"Behold," she said, "my long, fine hair, as gold as ripe sa-tarna, my eyes, blue as the sky, or the veminiums of Anango!" "Excellent," said Kurik.
60	25	Neither Drusus Andronicus nor Tyrtaios, on the other hand, appeared to have shared in that amiable brew, that "gift of the Life Daughter," tawny, high-growing, flowing-in-the-wind sa-tarna, so readily available about.

Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
46	465	"Behold," called Ho-Tosk, "the lovely Lais, graceful and lithe, eyes as blue as the skies of En'Kara, lips as red as the scarlet dina, hair as yellow as ripe sa'tarna.

Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
37	16	Some fellows, bearing sacks of Sa'Tarna, climbed gangplanks, to deposit their loads according to the directions of cargo officers.
58	156	"I would prefer to die in a field at harvest time amidst ripening, golden sa-tarna," said Thurnock, "but this will do".