An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.441.2

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but how does a man who has injured others in word, thought, and deed, succeed in freeing himself from misery? Bhīṣma recommended abstention from meat; meat, moreover, enslaves the mind by taste (XIII, 114). Yudhiṣṭhira (referring to § 749) wondered how, when abstention from injury is the highest religion, persons should make offeringa of meat in śrāddhas in honour of P. Bhīṣma referred to the innumerable discourses on this topic that had taken place between R., and strongly recommended abstention from honey and meat, referring to the seven R. (Saptarṣayaḥ), etc. (a), and quoting Manu, etc. (β); he who eats flesh of animals slain by others incurs the sin that attaches to the slaughter; he who purchases flesh slays living creatures through his wealth (the cater's demerit is, however, not so great as the slayer's); by eating flesh left from sacrifices [to D. and P.; v. especially Agastya] and of animals that have been slain for feeding brahmans, one incurs a small fault. In old time persons who wanted to attain to regions of merit hereafter, performed sacrifices with seeds. Especially in the month of Kārttika or in its bright fortnight one should abstain from [honey and] meat, which many ancient kings have done: Nabhāga, etc. (γ); those who abstain from flesh for months or fortnights continuously, have Brahmaloka reserved to them. (It is by truthfulness that Hariścandra roves through heaven like a second Candramas.) Also the kings Cṛenacitra, etc.