History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.677

History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.677

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v6.c81.677

The convenient belief from very ancient times has been that a victim offered in sacrifice to gods and pitṛs went to heaven. Ṛg I. 162 21⁴³³ (= Vāj S 23. 16) and Manu V. 42 say so. Hemādri quotes verses saying that all the animals such as the buffalo that are employed for (gratifying) Devī go to heaven and those that kill them incur no sin.⁴³⁴

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Mānava Dharmaśāstra — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit
Vājasaneyisaṃhitā — Sanskrit
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit