History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c40.130.3

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But this is opposed to history and tradition.¹⁹⁰¹ The Mahābhārata narrates (Ādiparva 76-77) the story of Śukra, his daughter Devayānī and pupil Kaca and states that Śukra forbade for the first time brāhmaṇas from drinking intoxicants and declared that, if any brāhmaṇa drank surā thenceforward, he would be guilty of the grave sin of brāhmaṇa-murder.¹⁹⁰² The Mausalaparva (1. 29-30) states that Balarāma prohibited the drinking of surā from the day the *musala* (iron pestle) for the destruction of the Yādavas was produced and directed that any breach of his order would be punished with impalement. The Śāntiparva (110. 22) declares that those men who always avoid honey and meat and intoxicants from their birth surmount all difficulties. Śāntiparva (34. 20) prescribes that, if a man drank liquor when in danger of life or through ignorance, he was to undergo upanayana again. Acc. to Viṣṇu Dh. S. 22. 83-85¹⁹⁰³ intoxicants (*madya*) forbidden to brāhmaṇas are of ten kinds viz. those prepared from madhūka flowers, from sugarcane juice, from ṭaṅka fruit (i. e. kapittha), from *koli* (i. e. *badara* or jujube fruit), from dates, from jack-fruit, from grape juice, from honey, from *maireya* (extracted from the blossoms of a plant) and from cocoa-nut sap. Viṣṇu adds that these ten kinds are not forbidden to kṣatriyas and vaiśyas. Pulastya quoted by the Mit. on Yāj. III. 253 and by Aparārka p.