Text 49] Diti Vows to Kill King Indra 247
TRANSLATION

Kasyapa Muni continued: My dear gentle wife, never enter the
water while bathing, never be angry, and do not even speak or
associate with wicked people. Never wear clothes that have not
been properly washed, and do not put on a garland that has already
been worn.

TEXT 49
Aad afieard 3 aad ateTeTy |
waateen ez eMalea AT Vil
nocchistam candikannam ca
samisam vrsalahrtam
bhunjitodakyaya drstarn
piben nanjalina tv apah

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

TRANSLATION

Never eat leftover food, never eat prasdda 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 Sidra nor any-
thing 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 rem-
nants of such food. Actually a Vaisnava is not allowed to take any food
offered to the demigods. A Vaisnava is always fixed in accepting prasdda
offered to Lord Visnu. Through all these instructions, Kasyapa Muni, in
a negative way, instructed his wife Diti how to become a Vaisnavi.
