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of beasts fur foot only in cases of wrgent and pressing necessity; Although some of the Hindous, have in these days the city to assert that their religion dues not prohibit the consumption of fleshi, lyet a close and critical study of their religion and philosophıy liscloses facts quite to the contrary. “ Ahinsa parmudharma” is as mucli a principle of Hinduism or any other religion as it is of Buddhi-n, The lives of the Hindoo saints are rep ete with examples of kindnes, to aninals and it would certainly be an act of desecration to imprate the slightest inclination towards flesh-diet to any of the:n.
The lives of the lower animals are as precious is those of men and they have as great a privilege to live as any which man can put forth to justify his own existence in this world. It passen Olie's magination to conjecture what these flesh-eaters would say if any
trong man-eating race of rational tupeds were to arise and comence The work of devouring them. We curse the Gog and the Mayor because it is said that they would in some remote futurity devour bankind.
Gud created man a vegetarian and non-flesh-eater. An examinaKon of the human constitution discluses many similarities between it and
he constitution of a superior ape. The liver, the gall-blaclıler, the pehtonium, the onecuta and the sudoriperous glands of mau beur
marked resemblance to those of the anthropoid ape. Those who eave taken a stroll in the Albert museum and examined the craniums Hlaced therein must have marked a close resemblance between the Hanium of man and that of the Orang-outang. The human saliva den in this Creophagist condition resembles strongly the saliva of the þrbivora. The human bites represent the same composition in thit
the herb-eaters and possess power of sacclarification not discovereil f the corresponding secretion of the carnivora. The teeth of man We precisely the same in number and arrangement as those of the Go
la and the tongue, the fingers and finger-nails of the two animals sclose but little dissimilarity. It is said that the spikelike teeth of man kemble those of the carnivora and so man must be a flesh-enter. The
thropoid apes which along with man stand at the head of the maKniferous animals possess similar teeth and yet they are not flesh-eatF$. It is sugge teil that these teeth are meant for cracking nuts and
| SR No. | 536506 |
| Book Title | Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1910 Book 06 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Mohanlal Dalichand Desai |
| Publisher | Jain Shwetambar Conference |
| Publication Year | 1910 |
| Total Pages | 422 |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald, & India |
| File Size | 13 MB |