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> >-- Tomatoes, eggplants, cauliflower, broccoli, bellpepper

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> I wonder which puranas speak of New World vegetables?

 

I don't know of a particular reference this reference, but the Hari Bhakti

Vilasa does give a general list of things to be eaten and to be avoided,

referring to some Puranas and Smrti Sastras. For further reference, one may

study the eight Vilasa of Hari Bhakti Vilasa.

 

 

 

NA BHAKSAM NAIVEDYARTHE BHAKSESU APY AJA MAHISI

KSIRAM PANCA NAKHA MATSYAS CA

 

(HARI BHAKTI VILASA 8/152 HARITA SMRTI)

 

Uneatable food should not be offered to the Lord and among those foods which

are eatable, milk from the goat and milk from the buffalo, and milk from

animals which have five nails (tigers, lions and elephants, etc.) and fish

should not be offered to the Lord.

 

MAHISAN CA VIKAM CA AJAM AYAJNIYAM UDAHRTAM

MAHISAM VARJEYEN MAHYAM KSIRAM DADHI GHRTAM YADI

 

(HARI BHAKTI VILASA 8/155 VARAHA PURANA)

 

Ghee made from sheep and goats is unusable in the worship of the Lord. If

someone offers Me (the Lord) yogurt, milk or ghee, one should not offer me

these items made from buffalo, sheep or goats.

 

VRNTAKAM JALISAKAM KUSUMBHA SMANTAKAM TATHA

PALANDU LASUNAM SUKLAM NIRYASAN CAIVA VARJAYET

GRJANAM KINSUKAN CAIVA KUKUNDANCA TATHAIVA CA

UDUMBARAM ALAVUN CA JAGDHVA PATATI VAI DVIJAH

 

(HARI BHAKTI VILASA 8/158, 159 KURMA PURANA)

 

One should not eat eggplant, banana leaves, sunflower leaves and asmantaka

leaves, onions, garlic. One should not eat sour gruel (a thin watery

pouriage) or the juice of a tree. One should also give up turnips and

beetroots, carrots, kinsuka, forest figs, and white pumpkin. If the twice

born persons eat these things, they all become fallen.

 

YO BHAKSATI BRNTAKAM TASYA DURATARO HARIH

 

(HARI BHAKTI VILASA 8/161 SKANDA PURANA)

 

Anyone who eats eggplants, Lord Sri Hari always stays a far distance from

him.

 

VARTANKUM URHATIN CAIVA DAGDHAM ANNAM MASURAKAM

YASYA UDARE PRAVARTETA SASYA DURATARO HARIH

 

(HARI BHAKTI VILASA 8/162)

 

Beetroot, eggplant, burnt grains (rice), masura (pink dal), whoever has

these foods in his stomach, Lord Sri Hari remains a long distance from him.

 

YATRA MADYAM TATHA MANSAM TATHA VRNTAKA MULAKE

NIVEDAYEN NAIVA TATRA HARER AIKANTIKI RATIH

 

(HARI BHAKTI VILASA 8/164 quoted from YAMALA)

 

Any food which is mixed with wine, meat, eggplant and beetroot, if it is

offered by someone to the Lord, he cannot receive unalloyed devotion to Lord

Janardana.