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( 52 ) and the result was that all the Rishis in his dominions had to suffer. These Rishis averted the hundred and one evils that befel them in consequence of the slaughter, and spread them in the world. Horrible is the consequence of the slaughter of living creatures? ; Gentlemen, it is in his commentary upon this dialogue that Nilakantha mentions that the Arhatas were taken in by the good Acharana of Rishabha who . preached the Daya Maya Dharma in contrast to VainaDeva who recommended that in affliction one might eat. the flesh of a dog.
यधा-पवाशुन पात्राणि पे चे, यः पूजयितुं पितृ देव मनुथान ये च पात्राणि शुनः, इति श्रुतिस्मृतिभ्यां वामदेवस्य श्रेष्टतम स्थापि बीभत्स प्राचार प्रापदिख मांस भक्षण रूपः प्रदर्शितः ॥
पुराणे वा-ऋषभादीनां महायोमिना माचारं दृष्ट्वा पाहतादयो मोहिताः पाखण्ड मार्ग मनुगता इत्युक्तम् ॥
It is also here that Nilakantha quotes a Smriti saying, .. मोक्ष वामहाजं वाश्रोत्रियायोप कल्पयेत् ॥
“We should sacrifice a fat bullock or a fat hegoat in honour of a Vedic," and a Sruti appealing
. “मागा मनागामदितिं वधिष्टाः" "Don't kill the guiltless cow."
Nilakantha observes that the Sruti is stronger. than the Smriti, because the word “guiltless” occurs. therein.
The Charvakas were also against the slaughter Charvaka Darshana. of animals, for they preached,
