How is food tested for poison with an offering and with fire?

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Flies and crows that eat a morsel set aside soon die, and in fire poisoned food crackles and gives off unbearable peacock-blue smoke.

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Verse 8: one or two morsels are put aside as an offering before eating; if poisoned, flies sitting on them and crows eating them soon die. Thrown into fire, the food crackles, its smoke is peacock-blue and unbearable and its flame breaks up. Verse 19 adds signs shown by birds and deer kept near the kitchen.

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Detecting poison by the behaviour of birds and animalsमृग पक्षियों से विष की परीक्षा Testing food for poison with an offering and with fireविषयुक्त भोजन की परीक्षा

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Treatment of all poisonsसर्वविषचिकित्सित

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