[Advaita-l] Re: Buddhism Related Discussions

[Lakshminarayana]

Namaste,


> For example,
> in the vedas and
> smR^itis, vegetarianism is not made a vidhi, but
> it could have come
> about due to the shramaNa influence. 


But vegetarianism was also looked upon highly in the
vedas. As an example, chhAndogya 2.19.2 considers
vegetarianism to be a vratam (~holy vow).

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