History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c40.86

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About milk several rules are stated in the smṛtis. Gaut. 17. 22-26, Āp. Dh. S. I. 5, 17. 22-24, Vas. Dh. S. 14. 34-35, Baud. Dh. S. I. 5. 156-158, Manu V. 8-9, Viṣṇu Dh. S. 51. 38-41, Yāj. I. 170 lay down that the milk of a cow that is *sandhinī*,¹⁸⁶⁹ the calf of which is dead, that gives birth to twins and that has not passed ten days after delivery, from whose udders milk oozes of itself, is forbidden. The milk of sheep and she-buffaloes also is not to be used until the lapse of ten days after delivery. The milk of ewes, of camels and of all animals with one hoof is altogether forbidden. The Mit. (on Yāj. I. 170) notes that even the curds and other products of such milk as is forbidden are also forbidden, but Viśvarūpa thought that only the milk of a cow whose calf is dead, or who is *sandhinī*, or who has not passed ten days after delivery is forbidden and not curds and other products thereof. The milk of even a cow that feeds on impure food should not be used¹⁸⁷⁰ (Viṣṇu Dh. S. 51. 41 and Atri verse 301). In the Vāyupurāṇa even the milk of she buffaloes is forbidden.¹⁸⁷¹ Baud. Dh. S. (I. 5. 159-160) prescribes the penance called Prājāpatya for drinking forbidden milk of all animals except the cow and a fast for three days for drinking the milk of a cow when forbidden. Āpastamba-smṛti (in verse) forbids the milk of a *kapilā* cow to all except to brāhmaṇas and the Bhaviṣyapurāṇa says that even a brāhmaṇa is to use only such portion of the milk of such a cow that remains after employing it in rites for gods.¹⁸⁷² The Brahmapurāṇa says ‘one should not partake of curds at night even if one is starting on a journey, but in madhuparka it may be used at night. Ill-luck dwells in fried grain by day and in curds and barley by night and in Kovidāra and Kapittha (trees or fruits) at all times’ (quoted in Gṛ. R. p. 370). Manu IV. 75 forbids the eating after sunset of all food in which sesame are mixed.