{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sla/gau17.htm","path":"hin/sla/gau17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sla/gau17.htm","text":"1. A Br\u00e2hmana may eat the food given by twice-born men, who are praised for (the faithful performance of their) duties,\n2. And he may accept (other gifts from them).\n3. Fire-wood, water, grass, roots, fruits, honey, (a promise of) safety, food brought unsolicited, a couch, a seat, shelter, a carriage, milk, sour milk, (roasted) grain, small fish, millet, a garland, venison, and vegetables, (spontaneously offered by a man) of any (caste) must not be refused,\n4. Nor anything else that may be required for providing for (the worship of the) Manes and gods, for Gurus and dependents.\n5. If the means for sustaining life cannot (be procured) otherwise, (they may be accepted) from a S\u00fbdra.\n6. A herdsman, a husbandman, an acquaintance\n[XVII. 1. \u00c2pastamba, I, 6, 18, 13.\n3. \u00c2pastamba I, 6, 18, 1; I, 6, 19, 13; Manu IV, 247-250.\n4. Manu IV, 251. Gurus, i.e. parents and other venerable persons.\n5. \u00c2pastamba I, 6, 18, 14.\n6. Manu IV, 253; Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya I, 166.]\nof the family, a barber, and a servant are persons whose food may be eaten,\n7. And a trader, who is not (at the same time) an artisan.\n8. (A householder) shall not eat every day (the food of strangers).\n9. Food into which a hair or an insect has fallen (must not be eaten),\n10. (Nor) what has been touched by a woman during her courses, by a black bird, or with the foot,\n11. (Nor) what has been looked at by the murderer of a learned Br\u00e2hmana,\n12. (Nor) what has been smelt at by a cow,\n13. (Nor) what is naturally bad,\n14. Nor (food) that (has turned) sour by itself, excepting sour milk,\n15. (Nor) what has been cooked twice,\n16. (Nor) what (has become) stale (by being\n[7. E.g. a man who sells pots, but does not make them.\n8. Manu III, 104; Y\u00e2g\u00f1valkya I, 112.\n9. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 16, 23, 26.\n10. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 16, 27, 30. Haradatta explains 'a black bird' by 'a crow,' and no doubt the crow, as the K\u00e2nd\u00e2la among birds, is intended in the first instance.\n11. Manu IV, 208; Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya I, 167.\n12. Manu IV, 209; Y\u00e2g\u00f1valkya I, 168.\n13. 'What has been given in a contemptuous manner by the host, or what is not pleasing to the eater, that is called bh\u00e2vadushta, \"naturally bad.\"'--Haradatta. The second seems to be the right explanatibn, as food falling under the first is mentioned below, S\u00fbtra 21.\n14. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 17, 18, 20.\n15. Haradatta states that this rule does not refer to dishes the preparation of which requires a double cooking, but to those which ordinarily are cooked once only.\n16. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 17, 17. Haradatta says that food prepared for the morning meal and kept until supper is also called parvushita, 'stale.']\nkept), except vegetables, food that requires mastication, fatty and oily suibstanccs, meat and honey.\n17. (Food given) by a person who has been cast off (by his parents), by a woman of bad character, an Abhisasta, a hermaphrodite, a police-officer, a carpenter, a miser, a jailer, a surgeon, one who hunts without using the bow, a man who eats the leavings (of others), by a multitude (of men), and by an enemy (must not be eaten),\n18. Nor what is given by such men who defile the company at a funeral dinner, as have been enumerated before bald men;\n19. (A dinner) which is prepared for no (holy) purpose or where (the guests) sip water or rise against the rule,\n20. Or where (one's) equals are honoured in a different manner, and persons who are not (one's)\n[17. For this and the following S\u00fbtras, see \u00c2pastamba I, 6, 18, 16-1, 6, 19, 1; Manu IV, 205-217; Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya I, 161-165. An Abhisasta is a person who is wrongly or falsely accused of a heinous crime, see \u00c2pastamba I, 91 24, 6-9. Haradatta adduces the explanation 'hermaphrodite' for anapadesya as the opinion of others. He himself thinks that it means 'a person not worthy to be described or named.' 'One who hunts without using the bow' is a poacher who snares animals. Snaring animals is a favourite occupation of the non-Aryan tribes, such as V\u00e2ghris, Bhils, and Kolis.\n18. See above, XV, 15-18, where 'bald men' occupy the fourteenth place in S\u00fbtra 18.\n19. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 17, 3; Manu IV, 212. That is called 'food (prepared) for no (sacred) purpose which a man cooks only for himself, not for guests and the rest, see \u00c2pastamba II, 4, 8, 4; Manu V, 7.\n20. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 17, 2.]\nequals are honoured in the same manner (as oneself, must not be eaten),\n21. Nor (food that is given) in a disrespectful manner.\n22. And the milk which a cow gives during the first ten days after calving (must not be drunk),\n23. Nor (that) of goats and buffalo-cows (under the same conditions).\n24. (The milk) of sheep, camels, and of one-hoofed animals must not be drunk under any circumstances,\n25. Nor (that) of animals from whose udders the milk flows spontaneously, of those that bring forth twins, and of those giving milk while big with young,\n26. Nor the milk of a cow whose calf is dead or separated from her.\n27. And five-toed animals (must) not (be eaten) excepting the hedgehog, the hare, the porcupine, the iguana, the rhinoceros, and the tortoise,\n28. Nor animals which have a double row of teeth, those which are covered with an excessive quantity of hair, those which have no hair, one-hoofed animals, sparrows, the (heron called) Plava, Brahman\u00ee ducks, and swans,\n[21. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 17, 4.\n22-23. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 17, 24\n24. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 17, 23. 25. \u00c2pastamba, I, 5, 17, 23\n26. Manu V, 8; Y\u00e2g\u00f1valkya I, 170.\n27. \u00c2pastamba. I, 5, 17, 37.\n28. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 17, 29, 33, 35. Haradatta gives as an example of 'animals covered with an excessive quantity of hair' the Yak or Bos grunniens, and of 'those that have no hair' snakes and the like.]\n29. (Nor) crows, herons, vultures, and falcons, (birds) born in the water, (birds) with red feet and beaks, tame cocks and pigs,\n30. (Nor) milch-cows and draught-oxen,\n31. Nor the flesh of animals whose milk-teeth have not fallen out, which are diseased, nor the meat of those (which have been killed) for no (sacred) purpose,\n32. Nor young sprouts, mushrooms, garlic, and substances exuding (from trees),\n33. Nor red (juices) which issue from incisions.\n34. Woodpeckers, egrets, ibis, parrots, cormorants, peewits, and flying foxes, (as well as birds) flying at night, (ought not to be eaten).\n35. Birds that feed striking with their beaks, or scratching with their feet, and are not web-footed may be eaten,\n36. And fishes that are not misshapen,\n[29. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 17, 29, 32, 34, 35; Y\u00e2g\u00f1valkya I, 173.\n30. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 17, 29-30.\n31. Aitareya-br\u00e2hmana VII, 14. For the explanation of vrith\u00e2-m\u00e2msa, 'the flesh (of animals killed) for no (sacred) purpose,' Haradatta refers back to S\u00fbtra 19, but see also the Petersburg Dict. s. v. vrith\u00e2.\n32. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 17, 26, 29; Manu V, 5, 6, 19.\n34. Manu V, 12; Y\u00e2g\u00f1valkya I, 173, Haradatta explains m\u00e2ndh\u00e2la by v\u00e2gvada, which seems to be the same as the bird v\u00e2gguda, (Manu XII, 64). M\u00e2ndh\u00e2la is not found in our dictionaries, but it apparently is a vicarious form for m\u00e2nth\u00e2la, which occurs in the V\u00e2gasaneyi-samhit\u00e2 and is said to be the name of a kind of mouse or rat, It seems to me that the large herbivorous bat, usually called the flying fox (in Gugar\u00e2t\u00ee v\u00e2gud or v\u00e2gul) is really meant, which, by an inaccurate observer, might be described both as a bird and as a kind of rat. See also Vasishtha XIV, 48.\n35. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 17, 32-33.\n36. \u00c2pastamba I, 5, 17, 38-39.]\n37. And (animals) that must be slain for (the fulfilment of) the sacred law.\n38. Let him eat (the flesh of animals) killed by beasts of prey, after having washed it, if no blemish is visible, and if it is declared to be fit for use by the word (of a Br\u00e2hmana).\n[37. I.e. animals offered at Sr\u00e2ddhas and Srauta-sacrifices, though under other circumstances forbidden, may be eaten both by the priests and other Br\u00e2hmanas.\n38. Haradatta takes vy\u00e2la, 'beasts of prey,' to mean sporting dogs, which no doubt are also intended.]","title":"GUATAMA CHAPTER XVII.","type":"page"}