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1. Sesamum, rice, barley, beans, water, roots, fruits, vegetables, Syâmâka 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) Kâlasâka (sacred basil), (the prawn) Mahâsalka, and the flesh of the (crane called) Vârdhrînasa[1], (and of) a rhinoceros having no horn, is food which we always accept.'
[LXXX. 1-14. M. III, 267-272; Y. I, 257-259; Âpast. II, 7, 16, 23-II, 7, 17, 3; II, 8, 18, 13; Gaut. XV, 19.
14. 1 This is the first of the two interpretations which Nand. proposes of the term Vârdhrînasa. It is supported by Âpastamba's {footnote p. 250} commentator, Haradatta, and by Âpastamba himself (I, 5, 17, 36). Nand.'s second interpretation, 'an old white goat,' is probably wrong, although it is supported by the authority of Kullûka and Vigñânesvara.]