SB 6.18.49

TEXT 49

TEXT

नोच्छिष्टं चण्डिकान्नं च सामिषं वृषलाहृतम् ।
भुञ्जीतोदक्यया दृष्टं पिबेन्नाञ्जलिना त्वपः ॥ ४९ ॥

nocchistam candikannam ca

samisam vrsalahrtam

bhunjitodakyaya drstam

piben nanjalina tv apah

na-not; ucchistam-leftover food; candika-annam-food offered to the goddess Kali; ca-and; sa-amisam-mixed with flesh; vrsala-ahrtam-brought by a sudra; bhunjita-must eat; udakyaya-by a woman in her menstrual period; drstam-seen; pibet na-must not drink; anjalina-by joining and cupping the two palms; tu-also; apah-water.

TRANSLATION

Never eat leftover food, never eat prasada offered to the goddess Kali [Durga], and do not eat anything contaminated by flesh or fish. Do not eat anything brought or touched by a sudra nor anything seen by a woman in her menstrual period. Do not drink water by joining your palms.

PURPORT

Generally the goddess Kali is offered food containing meat and fish, and therefore Kasyapa Muni strictly forbade his wife to take the remnants of such food. Actually a Vaisnava is not allowed to take any food offered to the demigods. A Vaisnava is always fixed in accepting prasada offered to Lord Visnu. Through all these instructions, Kasyapa Muni, in a negative way, instructed his wife Diti how to become a Vaisnavi.