If you do, you commit a serious offense. You shouldn’t eat flesh without being circumspect. If you do, you commit an offense of wrong conduct.” 10. Discussion of the prohibition against elephant meat, etc. At one time the king’s elephants had died. Because there was a shortage of food, people ate the elephant meat. They also gave elephant meat to monks who were walking for alms. When the monks ate it, people complained and criticized them, “How can the Sakyan monastics eat elephant meat? Elephants are an attribute of kingship. If the king knew, he would not be pleased with those monks.”