Onion and Garlic to avoid.

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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=stool eating pigs, 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 shou1) 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=stool eating pigs, 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 37ld do the stiuka expiation (tiSucandrayana) for having eaten> bhustma (a kind of fragrant grass) and garlic.>> Agni Purana Chapter 173 -- verse 37