Institutes of Vishnu — LXXX.

LXXX. | Internet Sacred Text ArchiveSacred Texts Hinduism Index Previous Next # LXXX. 1. Sesamum, rice, barley, beans, water, roots, fruits, vegetables, *S*yâmâka grain, millet, wild rice, kidney-beans, and wheat satisfy (the manes) for a month; 2. The flesh of fishes (excepting those species that are forbidden), for two months; 3. The flesh of the common deer, for three months; 4. The flesh of sheep, for four months; 5. The flesh of birds (of those kinds that may be eaten), for five months; 6. The flesh of goats, for six months; 7. The flesh of the spotted deer, for seven months; 8. The flesh of the spotted antelope, for eight months; 9. Beef, for nine months; 10. Buffalo's meat, for ten months; 11. The meat of a hornless goat, for eleven months; 12. The milk of a cow, or preparations from it, for a year. 13. On this subject there exists a stanza, which the manes utter: 14. '(The pot-herb) Kâla*s*âka (sacred basil), (the prawn) Mahâ*s*alka, and the flesh of the (crane called) Vârdhrî*n*asa, (and of) a rhinoceros having no horn, is food which we always accept.' [LXXX. 1-14. M. III, 267-272; Y. I, 257-259; Âpast. II, 7, 16, 23-II, 7, 17, 3; II, 8, 18, 13; Gaut. XV, 19. 14. This is the first of the two interpretations which Nand. proposes of the term Vârdhrî*n*asa. It is supported by Âpastamba's {footnote p. 250} commentator, Haradatta, and by Âpastamba himself (I, 5, 17, 36). Nand.'s second interpretation, 'an old white goat,' is probably wrong, although it is supported by the authority of Kullûka and Vi*g*ñâne*s*vara.] Next: LXXXI.