It is therefore, that wise men who are gifted with penances refrain from eating meat. Listen to me, O king, as tell you what the faults are which attach to the eating of meat.
न भक्षयन्त्यतो मांसं तपोयुक्ता मनीषिणः। दोषांस्तु भक्षणे राजन् मांसस्येह निबोध मे॥