Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2540
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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XIV, 6.
LAWFUL AND FORBIDDEN FOOD.
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must make way (for them, i.e.) for each later (named before those enumerated earlier).
59. If a king and a Snâtaka meet, the king must make (way) for the Snâtaka.
60. All (must make way) for a bride who is being conveyed to her husband's house).
61. Grass, room (for resting), fire, water, a welcome, and kind words never fail in the houses of good men.
CHAPTER XIV. 1. Now, therefore, we will declare what may be eaten and what may not be eaten.
2. Food given by a physician, a hunter, a woman of bad character, a mace-bearer, a thief, an Abhisasta, a eunuch, (or) an outcast must not be eaten,
3. (Nor that given) by a miser, one who has performed the initiatory ceremony of a Srauta-sacrifice, a prisoner, a sick person, a seller of the Soma-plant, a carpenter, a washerman, a dealer in spirituous liquor, a spy, a usurer, (or) a cobbler,
4. Nor (that given) by a Sudra,
5. Nor (that given) by one who lives by his weapons,
6. Nor (that given) by the (kept) paramour of a
61. Âpastamba II, 2, 4, 14; Gautama V, 35-36.
XIV. 2. Vishnu LI, 7, 10-11. Dandika, 'a mace-bearer,' may mean'a police officer' or 'a messenger.' I read with MSS. Bh. and F. shandha, a eunuch,' instead of satha, a rogue,' the reading of the other MSS. and of Krishnapandita.
3. Vishnu LI, 8-9, 12, 19; Gautama XVII, 17. I write sûkaka, a spy' instead of sûkika, a tailor,' according to the other Smritis, e. g. Vishnu LI, 12 ; Âpastamba I, 6, 18, 30.
4. Apastamba I, 6, 18, 13. 5. Åpastamba I, 6, 18, 19. 6. Vishnu LI, 16; Gautama XVII, 18. I read with the majority
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