Holy Cow: Beef in Indian Dietary Traditions

2nd edn A.B. Keith according ahimsā Ancient India animal food animal sacrifice Aryans aśvamedha Atharvaveda Avesta beef eating Bombay Brāhmaṇa Brāhmaṇical Brockington Buddha Buddhist buffalo bull Calcutta Caraka century Chap Chowkhamba cited in Kane commentary cow killing cow protection cow slaughter Culture deer Delhi Dharmaśāstra Dharmasūtra dietary early medieval eat meat eaten Einoo evidence fish flesh eating goat Gṛhyasūtras guest Hanns-Peter Schmidt Hindu honour Ibid Indra Jain Jaina Jainism Jātaka John Brockington Kali killing of animals king later Vedic law books lawgivers madhuparka Mahābhārata Manu meat eating mention monks Motilal Banarsidass Munshiram Manoharlal non-vegetarian offered Om Prakash Oxford University Press P.V. Kane Pāli pañcagavya Pāṇini passage Poona pork practice Prakash Purāṇa Purāņas R.L. Mitra R.S. Sharma Rāma Rāmāyaṇa references Religion religious Ṛgveda rites sacred Samhitā Sanskrit Smṛtis Soma śrāddha Suśruta Sūtra Sutta Taittiriya tathā Upanisads Varanasi Vedas Vedic texts Witzel Yāj Yājñavalkya