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I don’t know Pali well but I’m doubtful that there is manuka honey in India as the manuka tree is only found in Australasia. What is the original Pali for this phrase ?
“Whatever the Buddha teaches, we shall listen to it.” It’s like when there’s a person at the crossroads pressing out pure manuka honey, and a large crowd is poised on the edge of their seats. "
If you enable the Pali-English view you can directly see it:
“khuddamadhum”
madhu; honey
khuddaka ; honey made by a kind of small bees
I can’t think of an alternative…
Ha! Mānuka the a Māori word used for the plant in New Zealand, though the plant did originate in Australia…
New Zealand honey producers have been trying to assert ownership of the name…
Maybe it was flown over to Australia by a psychic monk trailing a cloud a small 
from the Ganges valley!
Names 
are part of language. Trees are part of nature. Both evolve, adapt, adopt.
Maybe the tree whispered its choice of name, thinking of sitting in a past life by that crossroads, sorry for the bees, glad for the honey.
An attentive reader of my translations will notice an occasional nod to my antipodean background.
What a beautiful thought!
This sound like the Ügg Boots" court case.
What was the outcome?
In a hundred years this passage will be cited as support of the ‘Buddha lived in Australia’ theory. He stopped over in Sri Lanka on the way of course.
I don’t see any value in adding in the manuka when it is clear it is not. Perhaps the word would best be left as honey.