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17 Yo dadyāt köncanam Mérum, kritsnām caiva vasundhram
Abh:akşapam ca mamasya, na ca tulyam Yudhisthira! 17 18 Hiranya-dānam go-danam bhūmi-dänam tatbaiva ca
Abhaksanam ca mānisasya, na ca lulyam Yudhisthira | 18 19 Kapilādām sababram tu măsé māsam gavām.dadet
Abhaksanam ca mămasya na ca tulyam Yudbisthira! 19
5. Meat-eating is the augmentor of injury to animals, Increaser of unrighteousness, and the originator of misery, Flesh there'iore should not be eaten.
6. He who desires to increase his own flesh with the fjerb of another, acquires a troublesome dwelling-place. He is born at any place whats
7. He, either consecrated or practi ing religions study, who repeatedly partakes of meat. that unrighteous sinful man evidently goes to hell.
8. Brāhmius, moving in the air becane degraded by the eating of flesh. Having seen the fallen condition of the Brāhmins, one should not, therefore, partake of meat. 8.
9. The man, who eats flesh originating in semen and blood, does the purification with water, Gods, however, ridicule him. 9.
10. O descendent of Bharata | He who does not eat flesb obtains ablution in the sacred batbing-places which are heard of In the three worlds. 10.
11. O man! purification, from the eating of meat cannot be done by fire, not by the Sun, and not even hy water, Yudhisthira
12. What is the use of shaving of head and face? If people eat flesh, all indeed is useless.
13. If a forest-elephant having bathed in a pure flood of water, covers his body with dust, the eating of flesh is like that.
14-15-16. Even if ablutions are done in those higbly sacred
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