History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.968
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.968
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54. ‘Animal sacrifice.’ In the Mārkaṇḍeya as quoted in Aparārka p. 929 above animal sacrifice was forbidden in the Kali age. Though popular feeling had gradually veered round to the view that meat should not be offered in śrāddhas, in madhuparka (No. 22 above), yet animal sacrifices were performed at all times and are even now performed, though very rarely.