Food that is half-cooked, that has lost its goodness, the term 'its juice gone' meaning sapless and without nourishment, food that stinks, that is stale, having been cooked and then kept overnight, and that is left over from another's meal, and food that is unfit for offering in sacrifice, such food is dear to a person of tamas. Now sacrifice is said to be threefold.

Half-cooked, long-standing; sapless, having given up its natural savour; joined with a foul stench; stale, that, by the lapse of time, has come to another savour; left over, the remainder of the meal of others than one's teachers and elders; unfit for offering, not fit for sacrifice, that is, not left over from sacrifice; food of such a kind, made of tamas, is dear to the tamasic man. The 'eating' is just food, and again it is the increaser of tamas. Therefore by those who wish their own good, for the growth of sattva, sattvic food alone is to be used.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.