Question on certain prohibitions in Kaliyuga

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advaitin, "kalyan_panda" <kalyan_panda>

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I have one Q: can anybody tell me? In Kali Yug 4 things are banned

> which was not in other yugs. Gomans(beef),Niyog pratha

(fertilization

> by Debar or Rushi/muni) and other two. I know the third one but

not

> remembering now and could never remember the fourth one.

> regards

> panda

 

Namaste Panda-ji and all,

 

There is a dharma-shAstra book called nirNaya-sindhu. There it says:

Five things are prohibited in Kali-yuga: 1. Cow-sacrifice; 2. Horse

sacrifice; 3. sannyasa; 4. flesh offering to pitR's; 5. A widow

getting a son through the brother of the deceased husband.

 

The sannyasa part is contradicted in another dharma-shAstra book

called 'devala-smRRiti'. There it says that so long as Ganges flows

or so long as there are vedas, sannyasa is allowed even in Kali-

yuga.

 

PraNAms to all advaitins

profvk

 

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