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XII.
- NOCTURNAL MEALS. .
By the Jain scriptures, nocturnal meals are particularly tabooed. By taking food at night, small as well as big living beings (Sukshma and Badara Jeevas) that is many a living being get killed. By the sunset and in the beginning of the twilight, the darkness spreads. At that time innumerable microscopically small. lives begin to hover about in the firmament, and they are invisible even under the most powerful searchlight. We may be able to see some others by our naked eye even. All these are destroyed by taking food at night. You will: be convinced of it, by observing the condition of , an open lamp in the morning. Some ponous
creatures also sometime get into the food at night and this results in deaths of many. It is also wellknown that louse in food causes the disease of dropsy, ant if eaten spoils the brain at times even to madness, Spider gives leprosy
