Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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GAUTAMA.
XVII, 21.
equals are honoured in the same manner (as oneself, must not be eaten),
21. Nor (food that is given) in a disrespectful manner.
22. And the milk which a cow gives during the first ten days after calving (must not be drunk),
23. Nor (that) of goats and buffalo-cows (under the same conditions).
24. (The milk) of sheep, camels, and of onehoofed animals must not be drunk under any circumstances,
25. Nor (that) of animals from whose udders the milk flows spontaneously, of those that bring forth twins, and of those giving milk while big with young,
26. Nor the milk of a cow whose calf is dead or separated from her.
27. And five-toed animals (must) not (be eaten) excepting the hedgehog, the hare, the porcupine, the iguana, the rhinoceros, and the tortoise,
28. Nor animals which have a double row of teeth, those which are covered with an excessive quantity of hair, those which have no hair, onehoofed animals, sparrows, the (heron called) Plava, Brahmani ducks, and swans,
21. Apastamba I, 5, 17, 4. 22-23. Apastamba I, 5, 17, 24. 24. Âpastamba I, 5, 17, 23. 25. Âpastamba I, 5, 17, 23. 26. Manu V, 8; Yâgñavalkya I, 170. 27. Âpastamba I, 5, 17, 37.
28. Apastamba I, 5, 17, 29, 33, 35. Haradatta gives as an example of animals covered with an excessive quantity of hair' the Yak or Bos grunniens, and of those that have no hair' snakes and the like.
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