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Decision about Acceptable and Prohibited Food^ - Verse 26

Kurma Purana (GRETIL / Internet Archive OCR) · 17 · Verse 26

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Sanskrit Original

केशकीटावपन्नं च सहृल्लेखं च नित्यशः। श्वाघ्रातं च पुनः सिद्धं चण्डालावेक्षितं तथा।।

keśakīṭāvapannaṃ ca sahṛllekhaṃ ca nityaśaḥ| śvāghrātaṃ ca punaḥ siddhaṃ caṇḍālāvekṣitaṃ tathā||

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One shall avoid an article once smelt by a dog and cooked again. So also the article seen by a Candala, or a woman in her menses, or smelt by a cow, or seen by fallen men, shall be avoided. 27-28a. He should avoid these articles as well—that with which no worship has been performed, that which is stale, that which has been touched by crows and fowls, that which is infested by germs, that which is smelt by men or touched by a leper. 28b-30a. One should not make use of any article given by a women in her menses, or by an unchaste woman, or by a woman angrily. Manu has said that the milk of a cow whose calf has died should not be drunk. Similarly, the milk of a camel, within ten days of her calving, shall not be drunk. So also the milk of a ewe and that of a cow milked unseasonably.^ 30b-33. The following birds and animals shall not be eaten viz.® the crane, the swan, the watercrow, the sparrow, the parrot, the osprey, the tusk of a hog, the webfooted birds, the cuckoo, the Cafa (blue jay), the Khanjarita (the wag-tail), the falcon, the vulture, the owl^ the ruddy goose, the cock, the dove, the pigeons, the Tittibha (lapwing), the village fowl, the