Onions and garlic

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1) By eating garlic and onion one becomes sinful and as atonement one should

perform Candrayana.

 

Gaurda Purana 1.97.3(68-71)

 

2) Onion, shit-thriving pigs, Selu, garlic, Goplyusa (milk of a cow before

the lapse of ten days from calving), Tanduliya (a grain growing in faecal

rubbish) and mushrooms— all these are to be avoided.

 

Skanda Purana : Chapter 40 -- Verse 9

 

3) The householder taking the rite shall avoid heavy indigestible pulses

like 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 10-12

 

4) (But) he should avoid stalks of lotuses, safflower, gold or silver,

onion, garlic, sour gruel, a thick fluid substance; so also chatraka (a kind

of mushroom), vidvaraha, greasy milk of a cow during the first seven days of

calving, vilaya (a particular product of milk) and mushrooms. By eating the

small red variety of garlic, blossoms of kimsuka, a gourd, so also udumbara,

bottle-gourd, a twice-born becomes fallen.

 

Padma Purana Vol. 42 Part 4CHAPTER FIFTYSIX --- verse 19b -24

 

5) I shall now mention those things that should always be avoided in

Sraddha. Garlic, onions, globular radish and Karambha (groats or flour mixed

with curds), and other articles devoid of smell and with no taste should be

avoided 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 grew

up- Hence they are avoided in the Sraddha rite.

 

Varaha Purana Chapter 16 -- verse 11b - 15

 

6) The expiation for having eaten the prohibited food is fasting. One

should do the stiuka expiation (tiSucandrayana) for having eaten bhustma (a

kind of fragrant grass) and garlic.

 

Agni Purana Chapter 173 -- verse 37