I wish therefore, O powerful one, to hear what the merits are of abstention from flesh and the sin about the eating of flesh, O chief of Bharata's race.
तदिच्छामि गुणाश्रोतुं मांसस्याभक्षणे प्रभो। भक्षणे चैव ये दोषास्तांश्चैव पुरुषर्षभ॥