On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c8.s14.4

v1.c8.s14.4

Milk, ghee, granulated sugar, sugar-candy, cakes and parched grain with mustard-seed oil are the common food; and fish, mutton, venison are occasional dainties (lit. are occasionally served in joints or slices). The flesh of oxen, asses, elephants, horses, pigs, dogs, wolves, lions, monkeys, apes is forbidden, and those who eat such food become pariahs.