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2. One, eating honey produced by the destruction of hundreds of thousands of small living creatures, surpasses butchers who kill a smaller number of animals.
Also, एकैककुसुमक्रोडाद्रसमापीयमक्षिकाः । यद्वमन्ति मधूच्छिष्टं तदश्नन्ति न धार्मिकाः ॥ ३ ॥ अप्यौषधकृतेजग्धं मधुश्वभ्रनिवन्धनम् । भक्षितः प्राणनाशाय कालकूटकणोऽपि हि ॥ ४ ॥ मधुनोऽपि हि माधुर्यमबोधैरहहोच्यते ।
आसाद्यते यदास्वादाचिरं नरकवेदनाः ॥ ५ ॥ 3. Ekaika kusuma krodăd rasam apiya maksikāḥ
Yad vamanti madhuucchiştam tad aśnanti na dhārınikah 3. 4. Apyauşadhakritejagdhammadhusvabhranibandhanam
Bhakşitah prânanāśāya kalakutakano'pi hi. 5. Madhuno'pi hi mādhuryam abhodhairahhocyaté
Āsādyantè yad åsvādāt ciram Naraka-yédanān.
3. Virtuous persons do not eat honey-the saliva vomited out by bees after having taken the juice individually from crores of flowers.
4. Taken even as a medicine, honey is the bond of hell. Because, even a small particle of Kāla-kūța (a kind of deadly poison produced at the churning of ocean) when eaten, causes destruction of vital organs.
5 Ignorant persons say that there is sweetness in honey. How can it be sweetness, by whose tasting, long-lasting agony of hell is produced ?
Ananta-Kaya. आर्द्रः कंदः समग्रोऽपि सर्वः किशलयोऽपि च । स्नुही लवणवृक्षत्वक् कुमारी गिरिकणिका ॥ १ ॥
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