Matsya Purana 227.115

227.115

tṛṇaṅge'bhyavahārārthamasteyaṃ manurabravīt.
adevavāṭijaṃ puṣpaṃ devatārthaṃ tathaiva ca .. 227.114 ..

Manu has said that there is no crime in taking a couple of cucumbers, two melons in fact any two fruits, two handfuls of grain, as well as the taking of śâka in an equally small quantity, the fruits growing on forest trees forest berries a small quantity of firewood, grass, the plucking of flowers from elsewhere in the absence of a flower garden for Divine worship A man found doing any of these things should not be punished One who kills any animals having claws and fangs such as lions, snakes, etc, does not commit any sin Neither there is any sin in killing an Atatâyi a man who has come to attack and kills, be he a Brâhmaṇa, a preceptor, a child, a learned man, and an unknown man—112-117