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## Seventeenth Leshyapad: Fourth Uddeshak
[305] The taste of Kapoteleshya is said to be like the taste of unripe fruits, such as 305 paravata fruits, walnuts, mature large berries, berries, or tindook fruits, which are unripe, not fully ripe, devoid of color, devoid of smell, and devoid of touch. [Q] Bhagavan! Is Kapoteleshya taste like this? [A] Gautama! This meaning is not valid. Kapoteleshya is said to be even more unpleasant in taste than these, even extremely unpleasant. 1236. [Q] Bhagavan! What is the taste of Tejo leshya? [A] Gautama! Just as the taste of mangoes, or even tindook fruits, which are ripe, have attained full ripeness, are endowed with the excellent color, smell, and touch of ripeness, (such is the taste of Tejo leshya). [Q] Bhagavan! Is Tejo leshya of this taste? [A] Gautama! This meaning is not valid. Tejo leshya is even more pleasant in taste than these, even extremely pleasant. 1237. [Q] Bhagavan! What is the taste of Padmaleshya? [A] Gautama! Just as the taste of any Chandra Prabha named liquor, Manishalaka liquor, excellent Sidhu named liquor, excellent Baruni (liquor), (Dhataki) leaf-made Asava, flower-made Pasava, fruit-made Asava, Choya-made Pasava, or ordinary Asava, Madhu (liquor), Maireyak or Kapisayan named liquor, date juice, grape juice, ripe sugarcane juice, or (scriptural) eight types of flour-made substance, or