Manava Dharmashastra 2.57

2.57

dṛṣṭamūlatāmatyaśanapratiṣedhasyācaṣṭe | anārogyaṃ vyādhyutpattirjvarodarādipīḍā | viṣūcikādinā jīvitanāśa anāyuṣyam | sarvata evātmānaṃ gopāyedriti śarīraparirakṣādinyatikramādasvargyam | narakaprāptiḥ svargābhāvena pratipadyate | apuṇyaṃ daurbhāgyakaram | lokavidviṣṭaṃ bahubhojitayā nindyate | tasmātkāraṇādatyaśanaṃ parivarjayenna kuryāt |

Over-eating destroys health, cuts off life and bars heaven; it is unrighteous and detested by people; for these reasons one should avoid it.—(57)

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
The present verse proceeds to show that the prohibition of over-eating is based upon ordinary worldly considerations.

‘Destroys health,’—is productive of such diseases as fever, pain in the stomach and so forth.

‘Cuts off life,’—destroys life, bringing on such diseases as cholera and the like.

‘Bars heaven,’—because implying the neglect of one’s body, it involves the transgressing of such scriptural injunctions as ‘one should guard himself against all things.’ The ‘barring of heaven’ means going to hell.

‘Unrighteous’—productive of misfortune.

‘Detested by people’;—the man who eats too much is always looked down upon as a ‘glutton.’

For these reasons one ‘should avoid,’ — i.e., not do—over-eating.—(57)

This verse is quoted in Vīramitrodaya (Saṃskāra, p. 488); in Aparārka (p. 156);—and in Smṛticandrikā (Saṃskāra, p. 115).

Comparative notes by various authors
(Verse 56-57)
See Comparative notes for Verse 2.56.