If there is any doubt about the most popular of the vedas, then it is that whether there is a law of animal sacrifices, meateating etc. The main reason for this misconception is wrong interpretation of the vedic mantras. In ancient india, cowslaughter was considered auspicious on the occasions of some ceremonies. Beef eating in vedas and other hindu texts truth about hinduism. The mantra states that in winter, the rays of sun get weakened and then get strong again in spring. Also know what ashwamedha and gomedha actually mean. Vegetarianism is their recommendation, as seen from the verses below, but meat eating is their concession. This also comes handy in convincing poor and illiterate indians to give up their faith on the grounds that their fundamental holy books the vedas contain all the inhuman elements like denigration of women, meat eating, polygamy, casteism and above all beef eating. Britishers tinkered with vedas to permit beefeating, cow. I started this website in 2011 to compile and assessa the evidence for or against beef eating in ancient india. With beef presented at the shraddha, their gratification, it is said, lasts for a full year. Meat eating is strictly prohibited in jainism, whereas it is conditionally allowed in hinduism and buddhism. No hindu will eat beef because every hindu believes the cow is most sacred. A beefeating hindu demands his rights times of india blog.
Payasa mixed with ghee is as much acceptable to the pitris as beef. The explanations trying to explain away beef eating seems to me laboured and lack conviction. Anybody can say anything and tell you that it was according to rigveda chapter 208, verse 311, and sentence 71. Misquoted verses of hindu scriptures for meat eating.
Hindu scriptures are witnesses to such sacrifices and killings of animals. Meateating is strictly prohibited in jainism, whereas it is conditionally allowed in hinduism and buddhism. Rigveda, manusmiriti sanction beefeating, the milli gazette. The book the history and culture of the indian people, published by. To hear the answer, please click here answer summary. Hindu scriptures and beef eating 22 islam and hinduism. Saying that the vedas permit beefeating and cowslaughter amounts to striking a lethal blow to a hindus soul. Rigveda, manusmiriti sanction beefeating, the milli. Beef in vedascow in vedic timeswhat vedas and scriptures speaks about eating beef. The vedas refer to more than 250 animals of whom about 50 were deemed fit to be sacrificed and, by inference, for eating. Like most cattlebreeding cultures, the vedic indians generally ate.
Read to debunk the myths of vedas having support of beefeating. In the middle ages a class of ignorant pundits arise in scenario who were fond of meat eating. Once, when there was a great famine, king prithu took up his bow and arrow and pursued the earth to force her to yield nourishment for his people. The news is that some hindus murdered a muslim for slaughtering a cow.
Jul 30, 2017 public domain in this poster condemning the consumption of beef, the sacred cow kamadhenu is depicted as containing various deities within her body. But the theory that in vedic times there was no cow slaughter is historically inaccurate,as beef was offered as food to guests and persons of high status. Rigveda 1085 declares, on the occasion of a girls marriage oxen and cows are slaughtered. The hindu religious fundamentalists have always associated cow slaughter with muslims,professor dwijendra narayan jha, a historian and author of the book, the myth of the holy cow,says that. The cow was neither unslayable nor sacred in the vedic. Yajurveda forbids killing of cows, for they provide energizing food for human beings. Even then, some rulers like humayun or akbar issued directives not to kill cows to control the wrath and repercussion. Oct 10, 2015 there is no mention of beef eating in vedas and nor it is a hindu custom. Indian religion and philosophy after the vedas rejected the ritual killing of animals. Hinduism and its complicated history with cows and people. Upananda brahmachari henb haridwar oct 10, 2015 there is no mention of cow slaughter or beef eating in vedas or any authenticated sanatan shatras scriptures nor it is a hindu custom at all. The flesh of rhinoceros, offered to the pitris on anniversaries of the lunar days on. Some hindus who did eat meat made a special exception and did not eat the meat of cow. Sep 29, 2007 with beef presented at the shraddha, their gratification, it is said, lasts for a full year.
Heres what vedas say on killing cows the problem lies with the inability to interpret the ancient texts in the correct sense. Just go to quora and u will see what i am talking about. Cows painted over a door are believed to bring good luck. So it has no concern with eating beef or any nonvegetarian food. Vedas prescribe punishment for injuring or killing cow by expulsion from the kingdom or by death penalty, as the case may be. There is no cow slaughter or beef eating in vedas or any. This article proves the permissibility of slaughtering cows and beef eating with evidences from vedas and. Seriously people probeef will argue muh history of beef eating and their wrong interpretation of the vedas.
Vedas do not talk about killing or eating cow meat beef. Dietary habits in hindu scriptures vedas there is clear evidence of meat consumption including beef during vedic period historical vedic religion of hinduism. The marketplace had various stalls for vendors of different kinds of meat. First ever book dispelling myths about beef and animal sacrifice in. After the islamic invasion in india, the communal muslim rulers tried to hurt and demean the hindu sentiments through cow slaughter. Jan, 2012 to hear the answer, please click here answer summary. Beef in indian dietary traditions, is a dry work of historiography buttressed by a 24page bibliography and hundreds of footnotes citing ancient sanskrit texts. Seriously people pro beef will argue muh history of beef eating and their wrong interpretation of the vedas. Injuring or killing of cow was prohibited in the vedic period. So i am not the first to write about sacrificial killing of the cow and beef.
Oct 22, 2002 book extract untouchability, the dead cow and the brahmin were the untouchables always untouchables. First ever book dispelling myths about beef and animal sacrifice in hinduism. Adi shankaracharya has written an extensive commentary on the famous brahma. This book along with the article no beef in vedas contains all necessary evidences to showcase vedas as a text that appeals for protection of all living beings. Vedas, upanishads, brahmins, grihsutras, dharmasutras and others. Beef eating in ancient india beef was widely eaten in. Heres the unpalatable truth about beef and hinduism. If there is any doubt about the most popular of the vedas, then it is that whether there is a law of animal sacrifices, meat eating etc.
Vedas on animal sacrifice and beef eating this is again a big misconception that the vedas supports animal sacrifice in yajnas. I have seen people falsely quoting vedas and saying that they encourage eating beef and our ancestors used to eat it. Book extract untouchability, the dead cow and the brahmin were the untouchables always untouchables. The cow was called aghnya is not to be killed or injured. Beef eating in ancient indian scriptures comments misconceptions have crept as vedic scriptures have been wrongly translatedinterpreted by some western and indian authors to down play ancient indian heritage, culture and vedic philosophy being ignorant about the true meaning of ved mantras as illustrated by swami dayanand sarswati in his books of explaining true meanings of vedic literature. It is not sinful to eat meat of eatable animals,for god has created both the eaters and the eatables. Beef eating in the hindu tradition by rohini bakshi. Kosambi had written about brahmins eating beef in his book ancient india. There is no cow slaughter or beef eating in vedas or hindu. Oct 05, 2015 indias scheduled tribes and scheduled castes who account for 25 percent of the countrys population, are beef eaters. Was beef eating common during the vedic times in india, and.
After the islamic invasion in india, the communal muslim rulers tried to. Jhas interpretation of rigveda mantra 108614 underlines practice of eating beef, which is absolutely wrong according to vedas. Apr 10, 2017 the vedas refer to more than 250 animals of whom about 50 were deemed fit to be sacrificed and, by inference, for eating. Hinduism and its complicated history with cows and people who eat. The society in ancient india was based on four varnas, the term varna means character, quality or nature. Was beef eating common during the vedic times in india, and if yes. I am getting really angry when they say our gods and sages were eating beef, quoting puranas and vedas another person. Here are some verses from hindu scriptures that seem to support beef eating. October 28, 2010 proofs that beef was eaten by ancient hindus and is eaten by many hindus today. Beef eating in vedas and other hindu texts truth about. Once you are able to convince him of flaws in the foundation of this core tenet and make him feel guilty, he becomes an easy prey for the predator faiths.
Modern hindus forbidden from eating beef but ancient. Rig veda says that indra, hindu god of rain and heaven, ate beef. To conclude my article establishing that the vedas and the subsidiary texts permit beef eating as well as sacrificing animals, i will post the testimony of renowned classical hindu scholars, besides the other notale scholars i have already quoted. Indias scheduled tribes and scheduled castes who account for 25 percent of the countrys population, are beef eaters. Book excerpt read what ambedkar wrote on why brahmins started worshipping the cow and gave up eating beef it was a strategy, wrote the father of indian constitution, to vanquish buddhism. Manusmriti chapter 5 verse 30 says, it is not sinful to eat meat of eatable. Eating of meat and beef in the hindu tradition the hindu. There is no mention of cow slaughter or beef eating in vedas or any authenticated sanatan shatras scriptures nor it is a hindu custom at all. With the meat of vadhrinasa a large bull the gratification of pitris lasts for twelve years. This text, written before 400 ce, and sometimes called the tamil veda, discusses eating habits and its role in a healthy life mitahara, dedicating chapter 95 of book 7 to it.
Is beef eating by hindus justified simply because the vedic people were eating meat or beef as claimed by some. The word used for sunrays in go which also means cow and hence the mantra can also be translated by making cow and not sunrays as the subject. And the foundation of hinduism is that vedas are supreme. Vedas on animal sacrifice and beef eating the arya samaj. Vedas on animal sacrifice and beef eating the arya samaj blog. In kaula jnana nirnaya by matsyendranath, it is said that gomamsa beef is one of the best daily food to consume. And we are witnessing that such incidents are increasing day by day after the ban has put on beef in some states. Jan 01, 2014 to conclude my article establishing that the vedas and the subsidiary texts permit beef eating as well as sacrificing animals, i will post the testimony of renowned classical hindu scholars, besides the other notale scholars i have already quoted. The book also says you should eat as many kinds of fish as available. Continue reading beef eating allowed in the vedas mahabharata. Some dharma texts composed in this same period insist that cows should not be eaten. Feb 15, 2016 ancient hindus of vedic era were eating beef.
Read what ambedkar wrote on why brahmins started worshipping. Heres the unpalatable truth about beef and hinduism the present controversy around beef eating, accompanied by violent objection and equally aggressive support, is engineered by extremist. According to some scholars, brahmins converted to lactovegetarianism in response to the growing popularity of buddhism, where buddhists were accused, mainly by jains, of preaching non violence while being meat eaters themselves. Latest dadri beef kand has taken a communal riots shape. What do the hindu holy books say about eating meat. But this fact cannot be regarded as evidence that beefeating was condemned in the rigvedic period. Pandurang vaman kane says, bajsancyi samhita sanctifies beefeating because of its purity. Dharmashastra vichar marathi, page 180 adi shankaracharya commentary on brihdaranyakopanishad 6418 says. Mitra was the first indian scholar to write on the practice of beefeating during the vedic period. No beef eating in hinduism hindu human rights online news. Oct 04, 2015 as a beef eating hindu, i am utterly outraged at the killing of mohammed akhlaq in dadri by a hindu mob claiming the man had beef in his house. A rigveda 1085 declares, on the occasion of a girls marriage oxen and cows are slaughtered.
Archaeological evidence of beef eating in india indus valley, vedic period, etc. Beef in vedascow in vedic timeswhat vedas and scriptures. This is again a big misconception that the vedas supports animal sacrifice in yajnas. Rigveda, manusmiriti sanction beefeating, the milli gazette, vol. My view is that it looks that people were eating meat during the vedic period. Vedas are replete with beef eating hindu gods, says indias. The ancient and medieval hindu texts recommend ahimsanonviolence against all life forms including animals because they believe that it minimizes animal deaths. Earlier in the book, ambedkar introduces the concept of broken men, whom he. Mar 24, 2011 but even if one is able to prove beef eating in upanishads, that still does not prove that there is beef in vedas.
The cow slaughter and beef eating are barred by hinduism i s the influence of bhakti moment. The taboo on cow slaughter and beefeating did not exist in the vedic era. Dear concerned, whether hindus are permitted to eat meat or not is an age old question. In the time of the oldest hindu sacred text, the rig veda c. Meat eating in hinduism and buddhism hindu website. Scholars have known for centuries that the ancient indians ate beef. There was no beef eating in the vedas until the british said so cows and beef are hogging the headlines these days the hullaballoo around beef bans, beef protests, beef fests and beef. The taboo on cow slaughter and beef eating did not. Rigveda, manusmiriti sanction beef eating a recent photograph of some hindu protesters demanding a ban on nonvegetarian food in restaurants and government canteens in india made me sit up and take notice. Why should beefeating give rise to untouchability at a later stage.
Animal sacrifices jantubali were part of the rural traditions of ancient. Modern hindus forbidden from eating beef but ancient hindus. No beef in vedas not only the vedas are against animal slaughter but also vehemently oppose and prohibit cow slaughter. The cow slaughter and beefeating are barred by hinduism i s the influence of bhakti moment. Many hindus follow a vegetarian or lactovegetarian diet that are in sync with nature, compassionate, respectful of other life forms diet of nonvegetarian hindus can include. Against the backdrop of row over beef consumption, an article in rsss organiser alleged the.
Beef consumption and cow slaughter was permitted in ancient. One may also question that as yajnas were rituals, one cant say that the consumption of the flesh of cow and other milch animals was a common practice among the people in vedic india. There was a time in this very india when, without eating beef, no brahmin. Like most cattlebreeding cultures, the vedic indians generally ate the castrated steers, but they. A thousand year foreign oppression might be the cause many scriptures were mistranslated. I have provided quotes which indicate meateating and those that prohibit it. There was a time in this very india when, without eating beef, no brahmin could remain a brahmin. First book ever giving 94 ways to rip beeflover apart. Beef consumption and cow slaughter was permitted in. Vegetarianism is their recommendation, as seen from the verses below, but meateating is their concession. First let us understand from where this concept of hindus being vegetarians came from and then ill discuss the holy books references. The book the history and culture of the indian people, published by bhartiya vidya bhawan, bombay and edited by renowned historian r.
But there is no more brahmin supermacy in this world and i find it amazing that people still think they are somehow sticking it up to the supreme caste by eating beef. Time to end the mischief last week i wrote about a group that was determined to prove that hindus had always killed cows since the vedas had allowed it. Jul, 2019 vedas prescribe punishment for injuring or killing cow by expulsion from the kingdom or by death penalty, as the case may be. A by mid2014 i had formed aa conclusivea view on this matter, summarised in the following statements.
Devta of this sukta is varunn the above mantra relates to the knowledge of celestial bodiescomprising of planets, stars etc. The taboo on cow slaughter and beef eating did not exist in the vedic era. Mukandilal writes in his book cow slaughter horns of a dilemma, page 18. There was no beef eating in the vedas huffpost india. If the hindus were eating beef, when did they give it up. Britishers tinkered with vedas to permit beefeating, cow slaughter. The meaning of the former is it is honoured, while the later means it is thought. Diet in hinduism varies with its diverse traditions. A buddhists analysis of meat and beef eating in ancient india by shravasti dhammika cow on indian political chessboard. Time to end the mischief hhr october 9, 2015 india comments off on no beef eating in hinduism. In all three religions, the rules regarding meat eating are established according to their beliefs regarding karma and virtue such as nonviolence and compassion.