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Dear Abrubs… You made a good point. It …

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Comment posted ‘The St. Thomas Christian Encyclopaedia of India’- Volume II , Chief Editor Prof.George Menachery by Johncy Panicker.

Dear Abrubs…

You made a good point. It is true that the persian culture ia somewhat like north indian brahminical culture.
Because the ariyans are also from iran province. There are relations between the zorashtriyan religion believes and the vedic believes and the mithra believes. You can see some gods are common in both zorastriyan and vedic hindu religions like indra, agni, varuna, etc. Hystorians also says that there was the migration of brahmins to kerala happened in the 6th-8th century AD and after that only the vedic caste seperation started in kerala. They also says that there was individual and independent migrations that took place even in the ending of the BC erra but they lived in communion with the local people. So it is possible that vegetarianism came to christins in this way also. Another important point to notice is that christines, means syrian christines of kerala were allowed to come near to barhmin and the sudhamakkal function took place within brahmins and christine only. If christines were non-vegetarians in the ancient times the namboodiris known as the most orthodox brahminical caste who strictly practices vegetarianism will not allow christines to come near them…