New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-18
BR4HAL4NS md BEEF.
From The 81 James's Gaseae.

FROM
The pious Hndoos Of Bcnares are about 10 send n
deputatlon TO England TO persuade Parliament To
prompt the slaughter OF cows IN any part o. India.
such Is the news trom Calcutta; and as the Mahar-
ajah of Benares IS said TO have engaged 10 defrav an
the expenses OF the mission there be little oubs
as 10 lts realty Indeed the HindoOs of the old
school have chung 30 the project of suppreing ~,
consumption of beef throughout India from liza
DAYS Of the Moguls down 10 own time Della
Vale the Roman traveller who visited Western
India in the reign OF James l. says that the Hndo0s
in Cambay, IN Guzerat, prevailed on tie MoeuI
Governor with large sum of money TO prohibit rho
slaughter of cows or calves under heavy penalties.
and any man at Camhay, MuSsulman or othergCise''
who dlsobeyed this order was in danger of LOSING
his life. The Emperor Aurngzebe was moro intol-
Grant and was detested hy the Ranoot ,Tiuces r.
cause he slaughtered cows in RapOotna NOT for the
sake of the beef but in spirit of persecution and
revenge AS late as the end of the last century Up
poo Sultan excited horror throughout southern in
dia because he compelled large numbers of HindOOs
Go eat beef in order TO poute them beyond all hope
OF being restored TO their caste, and thus forced
them, as IL were, 10 become Mahomnedans
Strange TO say nearly all the civil posts in has Cow
Minister n Brahmln OF the purest caste They
all pocketed the affront their religion in oonsd
money out of the Golfers OF the State; While Tppoo
Sultan could not dispense with their services SINCE
they were the only educated men in his dnminions
Ii may naturally be asked what there in the
COW 10 command such superStitious reverence. As
ated with one of the oldest religions the world
From the remoteSt antiquity the has been 70
garded as the Incarnation OF the female element IN
nature-the UNI ersai mother as well rs the giver
of milk and butter, which the choicest dslica-
Giles I'D theeyes OF pious and primitive people The
Egyptians Worshipped the goddess Isis In the form
of "a woman, with the horns of a COW. The lindoos
worship the COW as an incarnation of Iakshmi the
wife of Nishnu, the holy. beautiful and pare IDEAL
of woman, who rose from of the sea like another
Aphrodite. To wake up in the morning and see a
COW is the best omen OF good luck that can befan
Hindoo just in the same way that to wake up and
see widow drives him into state of Tie most
acute apprehension of coming nnsfortDnes. Tho
Ideas OF hlndoos as TO beef are altogether different
FROM those of Buddhists. The Hindoos REGARD TIA
COW as deity. Ii has been said thar they would
eat human flesh rather than taste beef; aud they
ship rather than eat salt beef Yet for al this
Brahmans travelling in England have been known
to eat beef and like 1t. Indeed, one Drahmin
boosted during visit 20 England that tho Gacri eg-
Ious nourlshment cured him Of a bad asthma which
had aected hum for years and which had been orig
inally brought by series of bathings in sacrci
rivers, undertaken with the pious view Of washina
! away the sins Of his deceased father