or less evolved about being a vegetarian though & the Hindu shAstra-s do not assume that even brAhmaNa-s would be a pure vegetarian – they were not. However, for cultural reasons impinging on popular religion a serious fraction of them became vegetarian.That is how it was until
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not long ago.The dietary laws in the shAstra-s mostly apply for the Arya varNa-s and don't have much or any bearing on what other Hindus eat. Likewise,the brAhmaNa dietary strictures have little bearing on others diet and need no universalization or special religious explanation.
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I am aware that several H vaishya-s are also quite particular on vegetarian diets. Why brAhmaNa-s might be suspicious of their ilk eating meat in modern times outside of a religious context is that it usually comes with a constellation of memes that are inimical to the core
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aspects of V1 traditions.
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Agreed with all of this. Amazing explanation and eminently sensible. Now I wonder why the cow veneration did not stay with other Indo Europeans?
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One thing to be understood is that cow veneration while ancestral to the Indo-Europeans -- seen in Germanics, Greeks, Iranians at least in specific terms it did not mean that bovine was not sacrificed among the Indo-Europeans. Probably the cow itself being needed for bull might
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have not been sacrificed but the male/castrato was. It was in many ways a costly sacrifice to show to the gods that you are giving them something you serious care for. However, I think the utter disregard for the animal stemmed from Abrahamistic influences
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So there was a shared veneration. I'm guessing in jambudvipa it coalesced further into a strict taboo due to the usefulness of bovines on the Gangetic plains, relative to the other domains of Indo Europeans?
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That's possible: intensive farming saw much greater value for live bovines than a quick meal which will not last long. We know from archaeology that the pre-Aryan denizens of southern India herded cattle but did eat them. There is no genetic evidence for them using their milk
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directly, though they might have made curds.
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