History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1223
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.1223
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Among the many things to be given up in K is flesh. S Pr. (folio 46) and KR (397-399) quote MB to the effect that giving up flesh-eating in Kārtika (particularly in the bright half) is equal to the performance of severe austerities (*tapas*) for a hundred years and that great ancient kings like Yayāti, Rāma and Nala did not eat flesh in K. and therefore went to heaven. Nār. (uttarārdha) 22 58 avers that a man becomes a cāṇḍāla by eating flesh in K. Vide under Bakapañcaka.