sometimes this site really does challenge the count to ten principle
You can certainly say that again Jerry, it seems to me that some members are off in cloud cuckoo land all too often! :

this recipe is for chilli sauce
Is it? But it has about 4 times as much tomato puree as the next most prevalent ingredient?
the chilli sauce is part of the prep
Part of the prep for that exactly?
my interest in it comes from trying to produce plain curry sauce (for ages)
But isn't a "plain curry sauce" essentially a curry base with little else added?
the ashoka south indian garlic sauce was posted at around the same time - the ingredients were very similar
I'd say they were quite different Jerry, and the "South Indian Garlic Sauce" (not chilli sauce?) was for a specific curry wasn't it?
i feel i need both in the future
Errrr, why?
the only issues i see to resolve are salt
It seems to me that there are quite a few "issues" to resolve!

Sorry to be blunt Jerry, but I get very perplexed with the vagueness and obfuscation of threads and posts sometimes! :-X