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“Meat and beef in Hinduism”
#beef
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Satapatha Brahmana [3:1:2:21]
Yajnavalkya said: “I, for one, eat it (flesh of an ox or a cow), provided that it is tender”
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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad [6:4:18]
“And if a man wishes that a learned son should be born to him, famous, a public man, a popular speaker, that he should know all the Vedas, and that he should live to his full age, then,
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after having prepared boiled rice with meat and butter, they should both eat, being fit to have offspring. The meat should be of a young or of an old bull.”
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Manusmriti [5:30]
“It is not sinful to eat the meat of eatable animals, for Brahma has created both the eaters and the eatables.”
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Rigveda [10:85:13]
The bridal pomp of Surya, which Savitar started, moved along. In Magha days are oxen slain, in Arjuris, they wed the bride.”
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Manusmriti [5:35]
“But when invited according to law, if a man does not eat meat, he becomes, after death, a beast, during twenty-one births”
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Vasistha Dhrmasutra [11:34]
“But an ascetic who, invited to dine at a sacrifice of the manes or of the Gods, rejects meet, shall go to hell for as many years as the slaughtered beast has hairs.”
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Vasistha Dharmasutra [11:40]
“He will offer to us funeral repasts with honey and meat, with vegetables, with milk and with messes made of milk, both in the rainy season and under the constellation Maghah.”
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Mahabharat Vana Parva [207]
“Whoever partakes of animal food after having first offered it duly and respectfully to the gods and the manes, is not polluted by the act.”
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