एतद् उक्तं द्विजातीनां भक्ष्यअभक्ष्यम् अशेषतः । मांसस्य-अतः प्रवक्ष्यामि विधिं भक्षणवर्जने ॥
etad uktaṃ dvijātīnāṃ bhakṣya.abhakṣyam a.śeṣataḥ | māṃsasya-ataḥ pravakṣyāmi vidhiṃ bhakṣaṇavarjane ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Thus has the food, allowed and forbidden to twice-born men, been fully described; I will now propound the rules for eating and avoiding meat. s\
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.