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‘The Myth of Holy Cow’
by Prof. D. N. Jha.
“… references to Rama and Laksamana killing game for consumption as well as for sacrifice and the former’s image of a habitual hunter is corroborated by numerous Ramayana episodes …. ….”
(page 97)
” … The non-vegetarian culinary tradition is also reflected in the classical Indian texts on medicine.
The treatises of Charaka (first-second century) and Susruta (third-fourth century), available to us in their later redacted form, and of Vagbhata (seventh century) mention no less than three hundred animals (not all of them kosher ones!) and bear ample testimony to the therapeutic use of meats. …”.
(page 98)
