Shloka 3
Adhyaya 35 — Madālasa’s Instruction on Purity, Impurity, and Corrective Rites (Śauca and Aśauca)
भक्ष्या ह्येते तथा वर्ज्यौ ग्रामशूकरकुक्कुटौ । पितृदेवादिशेषश्च श्राद्धे ब्राह्मणकाम्यया ॥
bhakṣyā hyete tathā varjyau grāmaśūkarakukkuṭau | pitṛdevādiśeṣaś ca śrāddhe brāhmaṇakāmyayā ||
These indeed are spoken of as edible, yet the village pig and the rooster are to be avoided. But the remnants of offerings to the Pitṛs, the gods, and others may be partaken of at a śrāddha, with the intent of honoring and satisfying the brāhmaṇas.
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FAQs
Dharma is context-sensitive: the same category (food) can be prohibited generally yet permitted in a ritual frame (śrāddha) where intention, sanctification, and social duty (honoring brāhmaṇas and pitṛs) are central.
This is ritual-ethical instruction (ācāra) rather than cosmological genealogy; it sits outside the core pañcalakṣaṇa headings.
The ‘remnant’ (śeṣa) principle encodes sacralization: what is first offered becomes transformed in meaning, suggesting that intention and consecration can alter the ethical valence of consumption.