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In the Harivamsha Purana, it is said that the supremely compassionate ones, who have attained the state of Sugata, are free from all impurities. From that time onwards, the foolish people of the world, misled by the path shown by the forest dwellers, have become addicted to flesh and kill animals like buffaloes. (34)
Even in the lower realms of heaven, no deity drinks the blood of buffaloes, wields a trident, or engages in mutual killing. Yet, poets, like skilled painters, create poetry that defames virtuous people, finding a mere pretext. (35)
The opinion of the virtuous is that even the truthful and secret actions of others, when spoken of in public by others, become a cause of bondage. Then, how can it be said by any virtuous person that revealing the non-existent faults of someone in front of the world is not a cause of hell? (36)
These deceitful poets, enemies of their own and others' welfare, declare falsehood as truth and engage in deceitful speech. Foolish beings, misled by the words of the gods, fall into the path of killing others, like sheep into a wolf's den. (37)
Where is the path of supreme Dharma, which, when practiced properly, brings happiness to all beings and is compassionate towards all creatures, manifested in the world? And where is the conflict of Adharma, born from killing others, leading to hell, imagined by wicked poets as Dharma in this wicked age? (38)
Kings, who have revealed the character of the Lokapalas and who always shower grace upon beings out of fear of wicked people, also kill buffaloes and rams, aiming at the gods. What then can be said of other lowly humans? (39)
A person, who, having achieved success in some way, believes that it was achieved by the grace of the representative deity, and who, using his own weapons, cuts open his own body and offers blood as a sacrifice, how can he be compassionate in cutting open the bodies of others? (40)