Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c32.s3.11

c32.s3.11

On the physique of the Vahikas we may note that the Maha-Bharata in abusing their heterodoxy (probably they had then become Mahâyanist Buddhists) quotes a parody of a song of the Vahikas which shows that their women were large-bodied and that mutton was their favourite food. “When shall I next sing the song of the Vahikas in this Sakala town, “when shall I again, dressed in fine garments in the company of fair-“complexioned large-sized women eat much mutton, pork, beef and the “flesh of fowls, asses and camels? *They who eat not mutton live in vain.*”