With the flesh of rabbit and tortoise, he should propitiate them for eleven months. With the cow’s milk and I. VV. 37-39 show that Pitrs are satisfied for a month by articles of vegetarian food and fruit but vv. 40-45 state the periods of time for which Pitrs are gratified when the flesh of certain animals is served to Brahmanas at the time of Sraddha. We have similar list of this type in Manu III. 267- 272, Yaj. 258-260, Vayu P. 83. 3-9, Mt. P. 17. 31-35, Bm. P. 220. 23-29 though there is some divergence in some details. Refusal to eat flesh would punish the refuser by birth as a beast in the next birth, stay in the hell for as many years as the killed animal had hair on its body {supra 1. 18-40)—A relic of an old non-vegetarian age. *v.l. viddrinca bharandam (?)