Manava Dharmashastra 5.31

5.31

yajñārthaṃ māṃsasya piṇḍaprāśitrādijagdhiraśanam | eṣa daivo vidhiḥ daivairetadvihitam | anyathā tu māṃsāśinaḥ śarīrapuṣṭyarthakarmāśāśane pravṛttiḥ sa rākṣaso vidhiḥ | piśācānāṃ māṃsabhakṣaṇe sthitiriti nindā |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘The eating of meat—in the form of offerings and oblations —‘for sacrifices.’

‘This is the div ine law’;—this is what has been ordained by the Gods.

‘Behaviour contrary to this,’—i.e. eating meat for the fattening of the body—is ‘the demonical pract ice’; it is only demons that eat meat in this fashion. This is said in deprecation of the practice.—(31)