Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c6.s1.52
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c6.s1.52
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c6.s1.52
SACRIFICE. Regarding Sacrifice (āhutaggi), the stories do not enlighten us much. “They only mention it, in order to exhibit its worthlessness and illustrate the swindling ways of the greedy Brāhmaṇas in filling their pockets.” The Bhūridatta Jātaka, for instance, in so many piercing gāthās, hurls a scathing indictment upon the Brāhmaṇas of the times who caused the slaughter of dumb and harmless creatures “struggling to the last breath” and who “wore long frauds to beguile the simple and strip him bare at last.”⁴ One of the interesting references given out here in an off-hand manner is this: