must not be eaten (because eating it makes impure or brings
misfortune); e. g. Manu: ya ete (those mentioned in the
preceding verses) 'nye tvabhojyānnāḥ kramaśaḥ parikīrtitāḥ .
teṣāṃ tvagasthiromāṇi vadantyannaṃ manīṣiṇaḥ ‘…their food, the
wise say, is (like) skin, bones and hair’. Such persons
are, for instance, an insane man, a wrathful person, a
thief, a public singer, a carpenter, a eunuch, a woman in
her courses or in childbed, a backbiter, a tailor, a black-
smith, a physician, a libidinous woman, a usurer &c.; see
Manu 4. 205-221.; Yājnav. 1. 160-168.--One who has un-
knowingly eaten the food of such persons must fast during
three days; but, having eaten it knowingly he must per-
form the penance called Kṛṣchhra, as if he had tasted
seminal impurity, ordure or urine; according to Manu 4. 222.
In another verse, however, Manu (11. 152.) is satisfied, if
such a sinner drinks barley gruel for seven days and nights
(see the quot. s. v. abhojya). Comp. Raghunand. I. p. 317 ff.
E. abhojya and anna.