Does Hindu god eat meat?
It is also true that there are some Hindu deities who are offered meat. Most famously, goats are regularly offered to the Hindu goddess Kali. Meat offerings are also not uncommon in Nepal, a majority Hindu nation. But the vast majority of food offerings to Hindu deities today are vegetarian in nature.
In Hindu Puranas, Vishnu is a strict vegetarian god, but Shiva eats whatever he is given and the Goddess loves blood. Again this is not a strict rule. For when Vishnu descends as Ram, he hunts deer for food (an idea that many vegetarian Hindus reject rather violently).
Lord Shiva is supreme soul who never take his own body. He never eats anything, veg.
Seeking a larger debate on the food habits of mythological personalities and ancestors, Udupi district in-charge Minister Pramod Madhwaraj said on Saturday that Valmiki, Rama and Krishna were non-vegetarians. Speaking after inaugurating the Maharshi Valmiki Jayanti celebrations, Mr.
For the high tradition, defined by Brahmins, Shiva became a vegetarian god. The sects offering meat to Shiva as a prayer ritual, such as the Kaula Kapalikas and the Kalamukhas, were declared heretical according to the Skanda Purana.
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad has reference to meat cooked with rice. Also the Ramayana, where during their sojourn in the Dandakaranya forest, Rama, Lakshmana and Sita are said to have relished such rice (with meat and vegetables).
Rama and Laxman who, like the Pandavas, hunted animals in the forest during their exile, enjoyed wild meat cooked by Sita. Meat eating was the norm right through ancient India, which is why Emperor Ashoka's obsession in getting his family and his subjects to give up its consumption came to nought.
About hanuman, He is considered as a helping God, and since he was a Monkey God, he was considered a vegetarian.
Veerabhadra Channamalla Swami of the Nidumamidi Mutt stoked a controversy on Wednesday by claiming that Lord Rama and Seetha used to consume beef. Cow meat was consumed at the time of yagnas too, the pontiff said, adding that there was reference to it in the Valmiki Ramayana also.
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Does goddess Kali eat meat?
Lord Siva is also a great Vaishnava and never eats nonvegetarian food, and the goddess Kali accepts the remnants of food left by Lord Siva. Therefore there is no possibility of her eating flesh or fish.”
She told us a story that when Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati were young, it was the men that would get their periods and bleed from their armpits, but one day when Shiva had to go and on a war, he couldn't so Parvati being the eternal best wife that she is told Shiva that being a woman she can hide the blood in between ...
To answer your question, Arjuna most certainly was NOT a vegetarian.
The respect for cow is part of Hindu belief, and most Hindus avoid meat sourced from cow as cows are treated as a motherly giving animal, considered as another member of the family.
Geeta simply classifies all food into Satvik, Rajasik and Tamasik in the 17th chapter. It doesn't allow or disallow eating meat. In vedic times, references can be found in texts of eating all three types of food by everyone, including the Rishis or sages.
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But to counter the so-called theory of violence of Buddhists, Shankaracharya started a vegetarian campaign among Brahmins and upper castes. It was this campaign of Shankaracharya that turned the Brahmins of south India, much before those of north India, into vegetarians.
By the way Ravanan was a vegetarian, he was a Brahmin himself.
Whether you went North or South in ancient India, the kings usually ate meat. (So did the gods in our epics.) Ancient Indian rulers did not just eat meat or chicken. They ate tortoises, deer, peacocks and other birds and animals.
Lunch. Many don't know but she is a lover of non-vegetarian food, thus she likes to include chicken in her diet with some vegetables and rotis. Also, she prefers roti over rice anytime.
Did Ram and Sita drink alcohol?
In the Harivamsa, which is an appendix to the Mahabharata, Balarama, an avatara of Vishnu, is described as “inflamed by plentiful libations of kadamba liquor” dancing with his wife. And in the Ramayana, Rama, an avatara of Vishnu, is described as embracing Sita and making her drink pure maireya wine.
However, the Pandavas, during their exile also sustained themselves on meat, so it is likely that the eating of meat was looked down upon but not outright taboo.
Yes He did. Becasue the Dharma in Tretayuga for Brahmins also to eat meat as, in valmiki Ramayana, Sage Agastya, also a Brahmin, kills Demon "Vaatapi" by digesting him, when his Brother Serves him as Sheep Meat.
Kheer is known to be the favourite food item of Lord Rama. Be it sabudana kheer or payasam, kheer is a must when it comes toRamNavamiprasad. Kheer is made from milk sugar and rice.
Sure, all Brahmins, Kshatriyas, temple- retainers (ambalavasi) and some Nairs are traditionally vegetarians, and vegetarians abhor non-vegetarian food, but all non-vegetarians eat everything.