Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s18.11

c9.s18.11

Besides there were certain countries where people were in the habit of taking meat. In the country of Sindhu, for example, people lived on flesh and so non-vegetarians were not despised in that country.⁵⁸ Then there were robber-settlements and solitary villages (*sunnagāma*) where nothing was available to eat except flesh. Under such circumstances a *sādhu*, setting aside the general principle, was allowed to take flesh as a special case.⁵⁹