1) By eating garlic and onion one becomes sinful and as atonement one shouldperform Candrayana.Garuda Purana 1.96.722) Onion, stool-eating pigs, Selu, garlic, Goplyusa (milk of a cow beforethe lapse of ten days from calving), Tanduliya (a grain growing in faecalrubbish) and mushrooms— all these are to be avoided.Skanda Purana : Chapter 40 -- Verse 93) The householder taking the rite shall avoid heavy indigestible pulseslike Nispava, Masurika etc., stale food, defiled food, brinjals, gourds,cocoa-nuts, garlic, onion, intoxicating beverages and all kinds of meat.Siva Purana Chapter 7 -- Verse 10-124) (But) he should avoid stalks of lotuses, safflower, gold or silver,onion, garlic, sour gruel, a thick fluid substance; so also chatraka (a kindof mushroom), vidvaraha=stool eating pigs, greasy milk of a cow during thefirst seven days of calving, vilaya (a particular product of milk) andmushrooms. By eating the small red variety of garlic, blossoms of kimsuka, agourd, so also udumbara, bottle-gourd, a twice-born becomes fallen.Padma Purana Vol. 42 Part 4CHAPTER FIFTYSIX --- verse 19b -245) I shall now mention those things that should always be avoided inSraddha. Garlic, onions, globular radish and Karambha (groats or flour mixedwith curds), and other articles devoid of smell and with no taste should beavoided in Sraddha.The reason is also mentioned (as follows):Formerly in the fight between Devas and Asuras, Bali was defeated by Suras.From his wounds drops of blood gushed out and from them these articles grewup- Hence they are avoided in the Sraddha rite.Varaha Purana Chapter 16 -- verse 11b - 156) The expiation for having eaten the prohibited food is fasting. Oneshould do the stiuka expiation (tiSucandrayana) for having eaten bhustma (akind of fragrant grass) and garlic.Agni Purana Chapter 173 -- verse 37
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