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History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.326

History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.326

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v5.c75.326

Food, cooked in marriages, festivals in honour of a deity or in a sacrifice may be served through others, if an aśauca on birth or death intervenes 291; exceptions to prohibition about food 100; gift of cooked f highly eulogised 534n, offered as sacrifice to gods and manes must be given only to a brāhmaṇa who has studied the veda and what is presented to most worthy brāhmaṇas brings greatest reward 586; one requiring inner purity should avoid forbidden f or vomit it if he takes it through ignorance and take same prāyaścitta 100, purification of polluted cooked f. 328-329, rules about f. in expiations 124, rules about, for relatives after the performance of funeral rites for three days and twelve days 238-239, seen by dogs, cāṇḍālas, those guilty of mahāpātakas and a woman in her monthly illness or by a sonless woman or by one suffering from white leprosy becomes unclean 379-380; unclean food even may be taken in case of distress or danger to life 100, wealthy men should not throw away polluted f if it is more than a droṇa in quantity and poor men should not throw away more than an āḍhaka 330