The articles fit for consumption or otherwise
A Brahmana, should not consume the food offered by a Stidra, leaving aside the case of emergency. One accepts the food from a Stidra, he is born as a Stidra.
A Brahmana, who consumes the degraded food of a Sudra for six months, he becomes a living Sudra and becomes dog after his death.
О Best of the sages, when the food of a Brahmana, Ksatriya, Vais у a or Sudra, remains in the belly when he dies, the concerned person achieves the same yoni even after his death.
The cooked food of six people, viz., the actor, the carpenter, the dancer, the smith, a gang of rogues, and the food of a prostitute, should be discarded.
Similarly, the food of an oil-mill owner, the one who is a dyer of clothes, the washer man, thief, seller of wine, singer, black-smith, and of tire house with the impurity of the recent child birth, should be discarded.
Similarly the food of a potter, a painter, a fallen man, a goldsmith, a dancer, a hunter, an imprisoned fellow, an ailing person, a physician, the fallen woman, deceitful person, a thief, nonbeliever, denouncer of the gods, should be discarded.
The food offered by the seller of the wine, and of a Candala, should be discarded. The food of a person who is hen-pecked or one who allows the paramour of his wife to remain in his house, the one who is defiled by Ucchista, a miserly person and the one who always eats the left over of the food of others, should not be taken.
The food of an outcaste person, the cooked food meant for a multitude, the one who lives on the weapons, the eunuch, an ascetic, a drunkard, an arrogant one, a fearful person, who always keep on weeping, the one who has been humiliated and an outcaste, should not be taken.
The food of a person, who is envious of the Brahmanas, the sinful person, that of Srtiddha or of an impure house because of new birth, should not be taken. The food that has been cooked for self, disregarding the gods, besides the food of the cunning and an extremely clever person should not be taken.
The food of a woman without a child, a servant, an artisan and seller of the arms, should not be taken.
The food of the addictor of wine, a murderer, the physician, one whose organ of generation is mutilated or the food of a person who marries, when his elder brother is still a bachelor, or a woman who is married twice, should also not be taken. The food served by one who carnally enjoys the wife of his dead brother, the food which is given in anger, the food which is given with a message, or the food devoid of saihskaras should not be taken. Even the cooked food served by the preceptor should not be eaten if it is devoid of due consecration. All the sins of a person are enshrined in the food.
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Therefore, a person who takes the food of which ever person, he actually consumes his sins too. The following persons viz.: a farm- labourer, a friend of the family, cowherd, barber, musician, potter, ploughman of the fields, after eating food among these Sudras, some money is given to them by the wise. The articles made of milk, or those fried in ghee, the milk, the parched grain, the stuff made in oil, can also be accepted from a Sudra.
The brinjals, the vegetables, safflower, asmantaka (a kind of plant), onion, garlic, sour articles, the gum of the trees, should not be accepted. Similarly, the mushrooms, the wild boar, Slesmantaka fruit, beestings, or the milk of a cow during the first seven days of calving, the eatables named Simukha, and the mushroom, should be discarded.
The carrot, Palas'a (Butea Frondosa), the meat of animal killed by a poisoned arrow, the wild fig tree, Kimsuka, Udumbara, and the gourd when consumed by a Brahmana, he is fallen. The Krsara (rice mixed with gingelly seeds), the wheatcake, milk pudding, pie, the unconsecrated meat, the food offered to the gods, rice gruel, the citrons, non-consecrated fish, besides the fruits of Kadamba tree, wood- apple and Indian fig-tree, should be discarded.
During the day time, the oilcake from which oil has been extracted as well as fried barley, and during the night the curd mixed with sesamum should be carefully avoided. One should not take in milk and butter milk together. A person should discard the stuff which is polluted by the action, served indifferently and polluted by evil conduct, and by falling therein of hair, insects and disrespectfully given.
In case the food is smelt by a dog, or is recooked, or over which a Candala has cast his glance, the same should also be abondoned. In case the food is looked by a woman in her menses, or is smelt by a cow, or is seen by fallen man, or the one who is unrespected or the food which has become stale, or the food which has been touched by a crow or a cock, or which is infested with insects, or the food which is smelt by humans or has been touched by a leper, suffering from leprosy, the same should be surely abondoned.
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The thing which is offered by a woman in period, or by an evil woman, the same should never be used. The thing which is given by an other woman clad in dirty garments, the same should also not be used. This has been ordained by lord Manu, that the milk of the cow, without a calf should not be used. Similarly the milk of a camel, within ten days of her calving, should also not be consumed.
In case one is non-vegetarian, even then he should not eat the flesh of a crane, swan, water- crow, sparrow, parrot, osprey, the tusk of hog, the webfooted birds, the cuckoo, blue jay, the wag-tail, falcon, vulture, owl, ruddy goose, the cock, pigeon, lapwing, the village fowl, lion, tiger, cat, dog, the hound, jackal, monkey and of the donkey.
Similarly the meat of all the species of deer, the flesh of the wild birds, of the aquatic or land should not be consumed. This has been ordained by the scriptures. Manu further says that the meat of a godha (alligator), tortoise, hare, porcupine, or the creatures with five nails, can be eaten. And the fish with thorny scales, the meat of the Ruru-dear, can be consumed by first offering it to the Brahmanas as well as the gods. But no other type of meat should be consumed.
The Prajapati has allowed the consuming of the meat of a peacock, patridge, Kapinjala, rhenoceros, and the panther, as eatables.
Similarly, О Sages, the fish Rajlvas with lotus-like face, Sirhhatundas (lion-snouted), the fish called Pathinas, the Rohit-i'ish, have been allowed to be consumed. But the meat of the aforesaid creatures sanctifying it with the sprinkling of the water should be offered to the Brahmanas, when so desired by them specifically or where ones life is in danger, only then it should be taken. In fact, no meat is fit for consumption, still a person, who offering it first to the gods and then takes it as a prasada, he does not earn any sin, or otherwise in case a person, who consumes it as a medicine, or having lost strength, or at the inspiration of others, or as left-over of the yajna, he does not earn the sin. The one who is invited in the performance of sraddha or has been invited for the sake of a god, then in case a person refuses to consume the meat as a prasada then he falls into the hell for the same number of years as the animals has hair on the body and whose meat has been served to the guests, The established rule is that, wine should not be drunk, should not be touched and should never be thought of by the twice-bom.
Because of this, one should disown wine making all the efforts. A Brahmana, who consumes these forbidden things, he loses all his merits and incurs downfall.
Having become defective by eating prohibited food-stuff and drinking that should not be drunk, a Brahmana loses his rights and faces downfall.
Therefore, one should avoid forbidden food with all his efforts. He goes alone after elevation and after death goes to the Raurava hell.
Chapter 18
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