Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VISHNU.
LI, 31.
or of animals having a double row of teeth (such as the Rohita deer).
31. For eating (unawares) the flesh of any bird, excepting the francoline partridge, the Kapiñgala, the (quail called) Lâvaka, the peahen, and the peacock, (he must fast) for a day and a night.
32. For eating (knowingly) insects (ants and others), he must drink for one day (water in which the plant) Brahmasuvarkala (has been boiled).
33. For eating (unawares) the flesh of dogs, he must perform the same penance ?
34. For eating (unawares the mushroom called) Khattrâka, or (the mushroom called) Kavaka, he must perform the Sântapana penance.
35. For eating (unawares) stale food, other than a mess prepared with barley (such as cakes), or with wheat (such as gruel), or with milk (boiled with rice, or mixed with coagulated milk, or otherwise dressed), and dishes sprinkled with fat (such as clarified butter), sour gruel, and sweetmeats, he must fast (for one day).
36. Likewise, (for eating unawares) the juice flowing from an incision in a tree, (plants raised in) unclean substances (such as excrements and the like), and the red exudation of trees.
37. Also, (for eating unawares) the root of the water-lily; (and for eating) rice boiled with sesamum, or with beans, Samyâva", rice boiled in milk with sugar, pastry, Sashkuli (cakes), or food destined for
33. 1.And he must perform the Sântapana penance mentioned in the next Sûtra, as the use of the particle ka implies.' (Nand.)
37. Nand. interprets this term by utkarika, which, according to Wilson, is a sort of sweetmeat made with milk, treacle, and clarified butter. Kullaka (on M.V, 7) has a somewhat different interpretation.
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