History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.977

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after quoting the Brahmapurāṇa states that intoxicating drinks were forbidden to the three varṇas in Kali and to brāhmaṇas in all yugas (ages). But this is opposed to tradition. The Ādiparva (chap. 76) narrates¹⁸⁸³ that Śukrācārya prohibited for the first time brāhmaṇas from drinking intoxicants (vide H. Dh. vol. II. pp. 792-799 for detailed discussion of this topic). The Kalivarjya text forbids the drinking of intoxicants to all the three twice-born classes. But kṣatriyas and vaiśyas pay scant attention to this prohibition and even some brāhmaṇas in these days have taken to drink as a fashionable indulgence. The K. V. N. (folio 5a), Kṛṣṇabhaṭṭa¹⁸⁸⁴ and Sm. Kau. note that in the śākta treatises (called Vāmāgama) madya is allowed to be offered to the idol for all the three varṇas and to kṣatriyas in the propitiatory rites for Vināyaka and for birth on the Mūla constellation but this kalivarjya text forbids all that.