Duties in Vdnaprastha (Hermit’s) Stage'- Vydsa said : - Verse 11
Kurma Purana (GRETIL / Internet Archive OCR) · 27 · Verse 11
Sanskrit Original
देवताभ्यश्च तद हुत्वा वन्यं मेध्यतरं हविः। शेषं समुपभुञ्जीत लवणं च स्वयं कृतम।।
devatābhyaśca tad hutvā vanyaṃ medhyataraṃ haviḥ| śeṣaṃ samupabhuñjīta lavaṇaṃ ca svayaṃ kṛtam||
27.12b.20 497 Having offered those highly sacred Havis (oblations) of the products of the forest to the deities, he should partake of the remainder for himself with the salt prepared by himself.^ 12b-13. He should avoid wine and meat and the mush¬ rooms growing on the Earth; ‘earth-grass’ i.e. Andropogon Schoenanthus; the fruit of the trees Sisuka (Sigruka and Slesma- taka (Cordia Latifolia) ; he shall never eat anything cultivated (after ploughing the earth) with the ploughshare. Nor shall he eat anything abandoned by anyone.