Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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XVII, 36.
EATING AND FORBIDDEN FOOD.
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29. (Nor) crows, herons, vultures, and falcons, (birds) born in the water, (birds) with red feet and beaks, tame cocks and pigs,
30. (Nor) milch-cows and draught-oxen,
31. Nor the flesh of animals whose milk-teeth have not fallen out, which are diseased, nor the meat of those (which have been killed) for no (sacred) purpose,
32. Nor young sprouts, mushrooms, garlic, and substances exuding (from trees),
33. Nor red (juices) which issue from incisions.
34. Woodpeckers, egrets, ibis, parrots, cormorants, peewits, and Aying foxes, (as well as birds) flying at night, (ought not to be eaten).
35. Birds that feed striking with their beaks, or scratching with their feet, and are not webfooted may be eaten,
36. And fishes that are not misshapen,
29. Apastamba I, 5, 17, 29, 32, 34, 35; Yâgñavalkya I, 173. 30. Âpastamba I, 5, 17, 29-30.
31. Aitareya-brâhmana VII, 14. For the explanation of vrithamâmsa, 'the flesh (of animals killed) for no (sacred) purpose,' Haradatta refers back to Sätra 19, but see also the Petersburg Dict. s. v. vritha.
32. Âpastamba I, 5, 17, 26, 28; Manu V, 5, 6, 19.
34. Manu V, 12; Yâgħavalkya I, 173. Haradatta explains mândhâla by vâgvada, which seems to be the same as the bird vâgguda (Manu XII, 64). Mândhâla is not found in our dictionaries, but it apparently is a vicarious form for mânthala, which occurs in the Vâgasaneyi-sambitâ, and is said to be the name of a kind of mouse or rat. It seems to me that the large herbivorous bat, usually called the flying fox (in Gugarâtî vâgud or vâgul) is really meant, which, by an inaccurate observer, might be described both as a bird and as a kind of rat. See also Vasishtha XIV, 48.
35. A pastamba I, 5, 17, 32–33. 36. Apastamba I, 5, 17, 38-39.
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