The Compendium of Bheḷa 1.12

Ātreya, Khaṇḍakāpya, Maitreya, and others of their kind— / those twice-born ones engaged in a discussion on the number of tastes in the Caitraratha forest.

There, someone stated unity of taste based on the common nature of taste; / likewise duality from suitability and unsuitability; others stated triplicity based on location;

sweet, not sweet, not soft, and soft—thus a group of four; / according to the division of the great elements, others said there are five.

One should understand this thus from the aforementioned reason; / or they might declare sixfoldness or sevenfoldness according to the variety of tastes:

sweet, salty, and sour, astringent, pungent, and bitter, / and alkaline—these are the seven tastes; one should not indulge in an excess [of any].

From excessive indulgence in a taste, a creature may meet with sudden death, / and diseases arising from the exclusive attachment to a taste would occur in him.

With round red stripes, round-eyed, and scaly, / a fish named cilicima moves along the shore of the water.

One should avoid that fish alone with milk, but one may eat others. / However, being eaten with milk, it vitiates a man's blood,

and brings about diseases born of blood disorders and even death. / One should avoid porcupine and boar together with milk.

A diet of wild roots and fruits is incompatible with the same kind. / But he who eats [them] with milk would meet with immediate death;

and diseases such as headache and constriction of the throat would occur in him. / One should not eat likuca fruit with honey or with cow's milk;

eating [it, one] may go to deafness, or blindness, or death. / One must not eat pigeons fried in mustard [oil] with milk;

for he would indeed obtain diseases born of marrow disorders, and further, / being bitten by a snake, one recovers through such foods with milk.

And diseases born of worms are seen in him, if he survives. / In this world, a woman and a man who eat wholesome, digested, and measured food,

and who are free from upward movement of vāta—their fetus indeed / becomes strong, endowed with complexion, and possessor of good sight.

Conducting themselves in the opposite manner, they meet with the opposite in this world. / For him in whom there is eating during indigestion, and fasting when food is digested,

that man incurs terrible diseases in both ways. / Therefore, when food is digested, wholesome, measured, and mutually compatible, / all tastes should be consumed properly by those whose bodily elements are guarded. / Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the twelfth chapter in Bheḷa. / / Thirteenth chapter / / / Now next we shall expound the chapter on the classification of regions; thus said the venerable Ātreya.