did hindus ever ate cows?

Question

That the Aryans of the Rig Veda did kill cows for purposes of food and ate beef is abundantly clear from the Rig Veda itself. In Rig Veda (X. 86.14) Indra says: “They cook for one 15 plus twenty oxen”. The Rig Veda (X.91.14) says that for Agni were sacrificed horses, bulls, oxen, barren cows and rams. From the Rig Veda (X.72.6) it appears that the cow was killed with a sword or axe.
In the Samyuta Nikaya (111,1-9) we have another description of a Yajna performed by Pasenadi, king of Kosala. It is said that five hundred bulls, five hundred calves and many heifers, goats and rams were led to the pillar to be sacrificed.

dear mr.ssrvj
the entire script in sanskrit ane even vedic sanskrit has been written on this page.have a look at it.i dont know wheather its true or false.i dont understand sanskrit.and i feel i have no need to study this language as it wont help me much in my country.i do eat all kinds of meats.red ,white , prossessed you name it .i love animals they are really tasty.

http://www.angelfire.com/in4/vedastudy/cow1.html

Answer 1

so then, it must be ok to eat american cows, seeing we dont have any ancestors passing into them, only for food....and our cows aren't "holy" and have never been blessed...(i could be mistaken..)

Answer 2

You please quote the original Texsts in Sanskrit of Rg Vedha--you have written English translations by some "Mischief monger" ,becase you are illiterate in Sanskrit.There is a part of a verse--"Vishnum Chadur Bujam"=Vishnu has four arms---one Idiot translated this as "Vishnumcha Durbujam"=Even Vishnu has bad arms--"Vishnum" is annotated differently also-"Yaha Vaasyam Saha Vishnum"=the One that is immanent ,thatis Vishnu--because of the suffix "Um"-Vishnu is a noun-Vishnum is an adjective--It is all deliberate Hindu Bashers' Mischief--You quote the original Sanskrit verses from Rg vedha.We will discuss,then. Even "Indra Chatru"(Iwill kill Indra and "Inndra Chatru"=Indra will kill me.one extra "n' in pronounciation(Phonetics) in Rg Vedha will give Exactly opposite meanings.Indra is masculine.Indira is femenine--only one "I" is different.PLEASE do not misintrepret religious texts to show "One Upmanship".

Answer 3

Well... actually... cows used to eat Hindus. Then, Hindus started eating vows... more for revenge, than anything else. Things were pretty ugly for a while... then the cows and the Hindus reached a truce, which has pretty much been observed 'til this day. Let's just hope this truce never breaks down.
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Answer 4

true hindus in the south never did. the mean old aryan invaders from the north did, but they weren't real hindus.