[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 254.2.5 # Storia do Mogor 254.2.5 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 254.2.5 - **Language:** English ### [254.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.254.2.5) Since neither Brahmans, ascetics, monks, nor the learned eat any meat or fish in this country (eggs, being here included under the head of meat, are also avoided), I think it as well here to state the food and manner of eating of the other castes. None of those I have hitherto spoken of ever eat cow's flesh. To do so is a very low thing, a defilement, and sinful beyond all imagination. But they eat all the other meats consumed in Europe, and, in addition thereto, rats and lizards. As for shell-fish, these also are classed among the most impure of things, and are not used except by the pariahs. However, almost all the castes eat of the other kinds of meat, and judge it to be most delicious fare. The food of these people is usually placed on a little cooked rice, and it consists generally of a portion of dry and salted fish. For goats, sheep, chicken, rats, and lizards, are only for the nobility, and if other men eat of these, it is solely at their festivals and at marriages. Their plate is a leaf, as described above, or a small plate of copper, out of which the whole family eats, one after the other. - [Previous: 254.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.254.2.4) - [Next: 254.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.254.2.6) - [Up: 254.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.254.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.254.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.254.2.5) · Pramāṇa