02-04-2005, 04:19 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But Sri Hanuman, in the Valmiki Ramayana asserts that the entire Ikshvaku Clan has never eaten meat of any kind. This, inspite of Rama being born as a Kshatriya.
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Do you remember which kanda/sloka this was?
According to Persian scholars the ancient Iranian Aryans did not eat meat also, just like their Indo-Aryan cousins. This is stated in the Zarathushtrian texts.
Please see this site maintained by Orthodox Parsis :-
http://tenets.zoroastrianism.com/vege33.html
Quote from the above site :-
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The Shah Namah states that the evil king of Iran, Zohak was first taught eating meat by the evil one who came to him in the guise of a cook. This was the start of an age of great evil for Iran. Prior to this, in the Golden age of mankind in the days of the great Aryan Kings, man did not eat meat.
The Pahlavi scriptures state that in the final stages of the world, when the final Saviour Saoshyant arrives, man will become more spiritual and gradually give up meat eating. So it seems that our religion does support the theory that meat eating is a fall from the original spiritual state of mankind, there is nothing "hindu" or "jain" about it - it is Aryan belief, and the Indians have retained this Aryan belief more so than the Europeans, who deteriorated into beef-eating AFTER they migrated from the ancient homeland.
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Do you remember which kanda/sloka this was?
According to Persian scholars the ancient Iranian Aryans did not eat meat also, just like their Indo-Aryan cousins. This is stated in the Zarathushtrian texts.
Please see this site maintained by Orthodox Parsis :-
http://tenets.zoroastrianism.com/vege33.html
Quote from the above site :-
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The Shah Namah states that the evil king of Iran, Zohak was first taught eating meat by the evil one who came to him in the guise of a cook. This was the start of an age of great evil for Iran. Prior to this, in the Golden age of mankind in the days of the great Aryan Kings, man did not eat meat.
The Pahlavi scriptures state that in the final stages of the world, when the final Saviour Saoshyant arrives, man will become more spiritual and gradually give up meat eating. So it seems that our religion does support the theory that meat eating is a fall from the original spiritual state of mankind, there is nothing "hindu" or "jain" about it - it is Aryan belief, and the Indians have retained this Aryan belief more so than the Europeans, who deteriorated into beef-eating AFTER they migrated from the ancient homeland.
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