The words Pagar-Sa-Tarna ( Sa-Paga) mean "pleasure of life daughter". Paga, the symbol of physical love, is an undistilled amber colored alcoholic beverage reminiscent of earth's whiskey, made from the golden sa-tarna grain. Its taste is often described as "hot" and "firey". "a strong, fermented drink brewed from the yellow grains of Gor's staple crop, sa-Tarna"
Outlaw of Gor page 74
"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 yellow grains of Gor's staple crop, Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter."
Outlaw of Gor page 74
"In most taverns no bottle is brought to the table but the paga is brought to the table, by the paga slave, a cup at a time, the cups normally being filled from a vat behind the counter."
Explorers of Gor page 158
"He leaned over and tossed me a skin bag of Paga"
Tarnsman of Gor page 78
"... to the proprietor of the paga tavern, and took in return one of the huge bottles of paga, of the sort you put in a pouring sling..."
Raiders of Gor page 111
"She knelt near the table... and put the paga, in a small kantharos"
Renegades of Gor page 71
"Many civilians, I believe, do not know why certain warriors,by habit, request their paga in metal goblets when dining in public houses."
Renegades of Gor page 77
"The girls filled their vessels, which, like the hydria, or water vessel, are high-handled, for dipping, in a large kettle hung simmering over a fire near the entrance to the enclosure. Warm paga makes one drunk quicker, it is thought... Some Cosians tend to be fond of hot paga."
Vagabonds of Gor page 16
"Paga," called a man. I hurried to him, carrying the large bronze vessel of paga, on its strap about my shoulder. I knelt and filled his cup."
Slave Girl of Gor page 293
"I hurried to the counter and handed Busebius, who was beaming, the paga vessel and strap. Again it had been emptied. He dipped the vessel into a great vat of paga and returned it to me."Paga! Paga!" I heard. I did not even have time to slip the vessel on its strap over my shoulder. Holding its two handles with my hands, I fled back, with a jangle of slave bells, to the floor, to serve."
Slave Girl of Gor page 298
"`Paga!' called the standing man. `Paga!' A blonde girl, nude, with a string of pearls wound about her steel collar, ran to the table and, from the bronze vessel, on its strap, about her shoulder, poured paga into the goblet before the seated man. The fellow who stood by the table, scarcely noticing the girl, placed a tarsk-bit in her mouth, and she fled back to the counter where, under the eye of a paga attendant, she spit the coin into a copper bowl."
Rogue of Gor page 78
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