Decision about Acceptable and Prohibited Food^ - Verse 23
Kurma Purana (GRETIL / Internet Archive OCR) · 17 · Verse 23
Sanskrit Original
यवागूं मातुलिङ्गं च मत्स्यानप्यनुपाकृतान। नीपं कपित्थं प्लक्षं च प्रयत्नेन विवर्जयेत।।
yavāgūṃ mātuliṅgaṃ ca matsyānapyanupākṛtān| nīpaṃ kapitthaṃ plakṣaṃ ca prayatnena vivarjayet||
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.