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When and how did the concept of vegetarianism originate in Indian culture?
Posted On : 1/9/2009 4:25:33 AM
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Vegetables are the indispensable ingredient of Indian Food. The vegetables were present in the Indian cuisine since the Vedic era. The first vegetables mentioned in the Rigveda are the lotus stem visa , and the cucumber urvaruka . Vedas also refer to several others, like lotus roots shaluka , the bottle-gourd alabu , the water-chestnut saphaka, mulali , two other aquatic plants avaka and andika , and the bittergourd karivrnta or kara-vella . The Buddhist and Jain canonical literature6 refers to yams aluka , two convolvulus roots etaluka and kadambu , and several leafy vegetables. Kautilya in his Artha-shastra refers to the rajdhana or ksiri now kauki, Manilkara kauki and to the cucumber as chidbhita . The idea of vegetarianism started with the spread of religion like Buddhism and Jainism in India.
Posted On : 1/10/2009 3:32:24 AM
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It is with the spread of religions like Buddhism and Jainism the concept of vegetarianism initiated
Vegetarianism In Indian Culture
