History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c92.153

v7.c92.153

¹⁷⁶² शुद्धिं विना मद्यपानं केवलं विषभक्षणम्। चिररोगी भवेन्मन्त्रो स्वल्पायुर्म्रियतेऽचिरात्॥ महानिर्वाण० VI. 13 Sir John Woodroffe offers the rather amusing explanation that wine without food produces greater injury and that *japa* of mantra and the performance of other rites were believed by the sādhakas to remove the curse from wine and that the sādhaka meditates upon the union of the Goddess and God Śiva in the wine, the latter being itself a devatā सत्यत्रेताद्वापरेषु यथा मद्यादिसेवनम्। कलावपि तथा कुर्यात् कुलवर्त्मानुसारतः॥ कुलमार्गेण तत्त्वानि शोधितानि च योगिने। ये दद्युः सत्यवचसे नहि तान् बाधते कलि ॥ महानिर्वाण० IV. 56–60.