Editing Sacrifice (section)

=== Hinduism ===
{{main|Animal sacrifice in Hinduism}}The modern practice of Hindu animal sacrifice is mostly associated with [[Shaktism]], and in currents of folk Hinduism strongly rooted in local popular or tribal traditions. Animal sacrifices were part of the ancient [[Historical Vedic religion|Vedic religion]] in India, and are mentioned in scriptures such as the [[Yajurveda]]. For instance, these scriptures mention the use of [[Mantra|mantras]] for goat sacrifices as a means of abolishing human sacrifice and replacing it with animal sacrifice.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hinduism |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x002557593 |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=HathiTrust |language=en}}</ref>  Even if animal sacrifice was common historically in Hinduism, contemporary Hindus believe that both animals and humans have souls and may not be offered as sacrifices.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Das |first=Venna |title="Being Together with Animals: Death, Violence and Noncruelty in Hindu Imagination" |date=2013 |isbn=978-1-003-08588-1 |pages=17–31 |chapter=Being Together with Animals: Death, Violence and Noncruelty in Hindu Imagination |doi=10.4324/9781003085881-2 |access-date=2024-10-19 |chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003085881-2/being-together-animals-death-violence-noncruelty-hindu-imagination-veena-das}}</ref> This concept is called [[ahimsa]], the Hindu law of non-injury and no harm. Some [[Puranas]] forbid animal sacrifice.<ref>{{Citation |title=Ahimsa in Jainism, Buddhism, and Hinduism: A Compassionate View of Life |date=2022 |work=Comparative Approaches to Compassion |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350288898.ch-1 |access-date=2024-10-19 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |doi=10.5040/9781350288898.ch-1 |isbn=978-1-350-28886-7}}</ref>