History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c40.98

v3.c40.98

Gaut. 17. 14-16, Āp. Dh. S. I. 5. 17. 17-19, Vas. Dh. S. 14. 28-29 and 37-38, Manu V. 10, 24-25, Yāj. I. 167 prescribe that cooked food which has become sour by being kept for some time or by being mixed with something else should not be eaten nor should stale (over which the day or night has passed) food be eaten, nor food cooked twice (with interval) except curds and buttermilk and except stale articles like vegetables, cakes, fried grain, porridge, pulse cakes, those boiled in oil and rice boiled in milk or when mixed with honey; and that even stale food flavoured with ghee or curds or the remnant of food offered to the gods may be eaten. Manu V. 25, Vas. Dh. S. 14. 37-38, Āp. Dh. S. I. 5. 17. 19 and Yāj. I. 169 say that articles of wheat and *yava* flour and products of milk though stale and unmixed with ghee may be eaten by all *dvijātis*, provided they have not turned sour.