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Decision about Acceptable and Prohibited Food^ - Verse 6

Kurma Purana (GRETIL / Internet Archive OCR) · 17 · Verse 6

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Sanskrit Original

कुलालचित्रकर्मान्नं वार्धुषेः पतितस्य च। पौनर्भवच्छत्रिकयोरभिशस्तस्य चैव हि।।

kulālacitrakarmānnaṃ vārdhuṣeḥ patitasya ca| paunarbhavacchatrikayorabhiśastasya caiva hi||

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He should avoid the food offered by a potter, a painter, a usurer, a fallen man, a goldsmith, a dancer, a hunter, an imprisoned fellow or an ailing person. Vrddha-Harita XI. 122-123 and Bs. P. as quoted by Apararka (P. 241) give the following classification of “pollutions" and hence prohi¬ bition of food articles: