LXXX, 14. tfRADDHAS. 249

LXXX.
1. Sesamum, rice, barley, beans, water, roots,
fruits, vegetables, Xyamaka grain, millet, wild rice,
kidney-beans, and wheat satisfy (the manes) for a
month ;
2. The flesh of fishes (excepting those species
that are forbidden), for two months;
3. The flesh of the common deer, for three
months ;
4. The flesh of sheep, for four months ;
5. The flesh of birds (of those kinds that may be
eaten), for five months ;
6. The flesh of goats, for six months ;
7. The flesh of the spotted deer, for seven
months;
8. The flesh of the spotted antelope, for eight
months ;
9. Beef, for nine months ;
10. Buffalo’s meat, for ten months;
11. The meat of a hornless goat, for eleven
months ;
12. The milk of a cow, or preparations from it,
for a year.
13. On this subject there exists a stanza, which
the manes utter :
14. ‘(The pot-herb) Kalasaka (sacred basil), (the
prawn) Mahaialka, and the flesh of the (crane
called) VardhrUasa1, (and of) a rhinoceros having
no horn, is food which we always accept.’
LXXX. 1-14. M. Ill, 267-272 ; Y. I, 257-259 ; Apast. II, 7,
16, 23—II, 7,17,3; II, 8, 18, 13 ; Gaut. XV, 15.
14. 1 This is the first of the two interpretations which^Nand. pro-
poses of the term Vardhriwasa. It is supported by Apastamba’s