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SHRIMAD BHAGVAD GITA-A JAIN PERSPECTIVE
of the Indo-Gangetic planes, they gradually imbibed the indigenous culture of the original residents. However, they also developed their Yajna performances wherein they used to sacrifice live animals which were offered to diffrent gods. The sacrificial rituals developed technicalities with the help of priestly class of Brahmins. This led to the social importance of that class. Sacrificial technologies also produced new literature known "Brahmanas" which contained elahborate details as to how, where and with what materials sacrifices could be performed. This resulted in further supremacy of the priestly class of Brahmins.
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The society of those days was completely non- vegetarian and sacrificial violence to all types of animals was very common. In spite of this, there were many leaned and thinking intellectuals among the early Aryans who were against this sacrificial violence and their attempts to seek godly favour by such violent practices. They openly opposed Vedic rituals
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