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Re: Did SriRam eat meat?
Manish@cadnec.com wrote:
>The most authoritative Ramayana is that of Maharshi Valmiki which I read first
>when I was about 10 yrs and have read several times more since then. Also I
read the Ramcharitramanas atleast once. Haven't seen one instance of Lord Ram
Then why is it that many of the books which I have read mention this
fact? And they are not all written by prejudiced observers. For
example, C.Rajagoplachari- a pious person, an important figure during
our freedom struggle, someone who loved our traditions, and a scholar
- writes in an abridged translation of the Ramayana:
" Here and in other places, Valmeeki describes how Raama and Lakshmana
secured food by hunting. He makes it quite plain that they had to subsist
largely on meat. Some good men are troubled by this. But meat was not
prohibited for Kshatriyas. Indeed , it had always been the rule in India
to permit any food legitimately obtained and a consecrated as a sacrifice.
Raama was a Kshatriya and lived in the forest in the Kshatriya way, though
abstemiously "
>Please stop spreading such blatant lies to support your whimsical swamis.
What have "my whimsical swamis" got to do with it? Learn to stick to
the matter at hand. I asked a question, don't go off at a tangent and
take pot shots at others. As for my spreading lies, i am only voicing
what many have thought so even in the past. The question is genuine.
>fruits, esp. 'kandmool'. The only instances of meat eating in Ramayan are
>those by the deamons or one where rishi Agasta ate a deamon (one of the two
>brothers who used to cook one of his brother, feed it to holy people and that
How was the food served to Agastya? I mean, was it food served in the
form of meat?
Vishwanath
vgr@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
