[India] - 'Cow killers deemed to rot in hell': HC cites scriptures

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
LUCKNOW: A Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has actually asked the Centre to state the cow a secured nationwide animal and enact
a central law for a ban on cow massacre
It said based on the Puranas, anyone who kills cows or enables others to kill them is considered to rot in hell
India being a secular nation, its important to respect all faiths, Justice Shamim Ahmed said.Justice Shamim Ahmed drew heavily from Hindu
texts to require a ban on the slaughter of cows pitch for its defense while hearing the bail plea of a guy implicated of eliminating
livestock
India being a nonreligious nation, its important to appreciate all religious beliefs, consisting of Hinduisms belief that the cow ought to
be secured and respected due to the fact that it represents magnificent and natural beneficence, Justice Ahmed said
This court also hope and trust that the central federal government may take appropriate decision to prohibit cow slaughtering in the nation
and to state the same as safeguarded nationwide animal, it said in its order on February 14
The majority of states have their own laws against cow massacre, and sale and usage of beef.The HC made the observation while refusing to
quash a criminal case versus Mohammad Abdul Khaliq of Barabanki, who has been accused of cow slaughter and transporting the meat for sale
The court referred to the value of cows in rites of recovery purification, penance of the panchagavya, the 5 items of milk, curd, butter,
urine, and dung
Developer Brahma enlivened priests and cows at the same time so that the priests could recite religious bibles and cows could afford ghee as
an offering in the routines, it said
The cow is connected with different divine beings, significantly Lord Shiva (whose horse is Nandi, a bull) Lord Indra (carefully related to
Kamadhenu, the wish-fulfilling cow), Lord Krishna (a cowherd in his youth), and goddesses in general (since of the maternal characteristics
of a lot of them)
The cow is the most spiritual of all the animals of Hinduism
It is known as Kamadhenu, or the divine cow, and the provider of all desires, the court said.The HC bench said cows, according to Hinduism,
emerged from the ocean of milk during Samudramanthan, the churning of the ocean by the gods and satanic forces
Her legs symbolise the 4 Vedas; her source of milk is four Purushartha (or objectives, i.e
dharma or righteousness, artha or material wealth, kama or desire and moksha or salvation); her horns symbolise the gods, her face the sun
and moon, and her shoulders agni or the god of fire
She has actually likewise been described in other types: Nanda, Sunanda, Surabhi, Susheela and Sumana, the court stated.