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CHAPTÉR NINÉ vomit after sipping the juice from the interior of flowers one by one. Honey that is eaten even for medicine is the cause of hell. For even an atom of poison that has been eaten leads to destruction of life. Sweetness (mādhurya) is so called, alas! by the ignorant from honey (madhu), from eating of which the pains of hell are experienced for a long time.
Eating of fruits and vegetables (341-345) One should not eat the fruit of the fig trees: udumbara, the banyan, the waved-leaved fig, the opposite-leaved fig, and the pippala trees, which is filled with insects. A virtuous person does not eat the fruit of the five fig trees, though emaciated from hunger because he had not obtained other food. All green bulbs and all budding leaves, the milk-hedge, the bark of the lavaņa 255 tree, the aloe, girikarņikā,256 satāvari,257 forked grain that has sprouted, gudūci,258 soft tamarinds,259 the beet, amặtavalli, 260 the climbing bean named śükara, and others that have infinite bodies, named in the sūtras, unknown to heretics, must be zealously avoided by the compassionate.
Eating at night (346–363) A wise man should eat fruit known to himself or another. He should not use forbidden fruit nor poisonous fruit. He should not eat food, which has been made uneatable by ghosts, demons, et cetera wandering unchecked, in the evening. Who would eat at night food in which creatures falling are not seen
255 343. The Yog. says ' a tree named lavaņa.' I suspect this should be • lavana,' Anona Reticulata. For all these botanical names, see Yog., p. 166.
256 343. 'A variety of Achyranthes with white blossoms. L.' MW. Yog., valliviseșa.
257 344. Yog., 'valliviseşa.' Asparagus Racemosus, MW.
258 344. Yog., villīviśeşa.' Cocculus cordifolius, MW. ' The Auşadhi. calls it, heart-leaved moonseed.'
259 344. Before the kernels are formed.
260 344. Yog., 'vallīviseșa.' Cocculus cordifolius, MW. But obviously guduci and amstavalli both can not be Cocculus cordifolius.
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