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Study question (generated from the text)
Not food: Brahma and the others did not eat it, nourishment runs from milk to food, children are first given light food with milk at six months, and meat is very incompatible with milk. Not medicine: it is absent from the lists of drugs, it neither purifies nor, having no distinct taste of its own, pacifies, and no dose and none of the ten times for medicine is given for it. Not rasayana: it is absent from the rasayana section.
Detailed answer
The text also argues that eaten meat does not add to the flesh as flesh, since the body grows through the sequence of rasa and the other dhatus, that many people who eat no meat are stout and strong while some meat-eaters are thin and weak, and that the meat passages of other medical texts were added later by meat-loving authors. These are the chapter's own arguments, reported as written.
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- Content type
- Question
- Source pages with records
- 3
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Appendix: Hitahita
- Extraction tasks
- T29
- Record id
- qa_T29_07