[Assam] beef-eating in india: History is from Hindu texts?

[umesh sharma]

Pl comment on the Ambedkar's quotes of cow killing -in my other post.
   
  Umesh 

xourov pathok <xourov at yahoo.com> wrote:
  

--- umesh sharma wrote:

> You are wrong there. I have read while in India (I
> have brought the book with me here as well) the
> passage in Rig Ved which mentions beef eating. It
> says " Beef eating is not good --try to reduce beef
> eating" --while speaking to some devotee.

there is not one but many references in the vedas
about beef.

jha's is not the first book that talks about beef in
the vedas. look at k t achayas "indian food: a
historical companion" and "historical dictionary of
indian food" under beef. and the references therein. 



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