A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Flesh-eating
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Rig Veda (translation and commentary) [by H. H. Wilson]
sanad agne mrinasi yatudhanan na tva rakshamsi pritanasu jigyuh | anu daha sahamuran kravyado ma te hetya mukshata daivyayah || English translation: “You, Agni, have from old time opposed the Yatudhana; the rakshasas have never overcome you inbattles; burn murderous flesh-eating (rakshasas) one by one; let them not escape your divine weapon” Details: Rishi (sage/seer): payuh; Devata (deity/subject-matter): agni rakshoha; Chandas (meter): nicrittrishtup ; Svara (tone/note): Swar; Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated...
Read full contents: Rig Veda 10.87.19
Apastamba Dharma-sutra [by Apastamba]
Putikhasha is, according to Haradatta, an animal resembling a hare, and found in the Himalayas. (* 26) Haradatta closes this chapter on flesh-eating by quoting Manu V, 56, which declares flesh-eating, drinking spirituous liquor, and promiscuous intercourse to be allowable, but the abstinence therefrom of greater merit. He states that the whole chapter must be understood in this sense....
Read full contents: Prashna I, Patala 5, Khanda 17
The Skanda Purana [by G. V. Tagare]
Again in his sixth birth, he was a flesh-eating Pishaca (ghost). By means of well-tested Mantras of great power a Brahmana, the most excellent one among those conversant with Mantras of Atharva, did away with him. In the seventh birth he was born a Brahmarakshasa with a body too despicable to be looked at calmly. He had sharp curved fangs, a terrible mouth and dried-up limbs. Flesh and blood constituted his diet. The highly sinful evil spirit was born in desert lands....
Read full contents: Chapter 53 - Vishveshvara (vishva-ishvara-linga)
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