One should avoid these plants:^ Vrntaka (a kind of Brinjal), JdlikdSdka (a kind of green), the Safflower, the Asmantaka (the plant) the fibres of which are used to make the girdle (Mekhald) of a Brahmana. He should avoid onion, garlic, sour articles and thick exudations from trees. He should avoid Chatraka (Mushroom), Vidvaraha (a plant growing in filth), saila (Slesmantaka fruit ?), beestings, Vilaya (a milk product ? Simukha and Kavaka (Mushrooms). A Brahmana eating Grnjana (the meat of an animal killed by a poisoned arrow), a fowl, the gourds, the Kirnsuka, the Udumbara etc. undergoes downfall. One must scrupulously avoid (purposelessly prepared i.e. not for offering to deity), the Krsara (rice cooked with gingelly seeds), the wheatcake. Milk pudding, pie, cooked meat but not conse¬ crated, food offerings to gods, Yavdgu (rice gruel), Mdtulinga (Citrons), non-consecrated fish, the Kadamba tree, wood-apple and Plaksa (Indian fig tree). During daytime* he should avoid. *divadhana is probably a mistake for deva-dhanya ‘God’s grain’, recorded as v.l.