Thank you for the translation, Bodhi.
Some of that is also mentioned by Sandhya Jain in her 'Did Vedic Hindus really eat cow?' which also mentions how Taranath likewise changed the meaning of the Ashvamedha Yagna.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->EVen aurangzeb was a vegetarian, he says, and used Gangajal for his daily use. (I am not sure about these)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Me neither.
<b><i>If</i></b> there's any truth to the Aurangzeb bit at all (Hindus do eagerly grasp at all sorts of possibilities that present themselves to think the muslims were more like us and therefore sympathetic), there are far simpler explanations that won't turn the faithful Aurangzeb, poster-boy for islam, into a kafir:
Aurangzeb could have been a vegetable - sorry, 'vegetarian' - because his family hated him and he was afraid of being food poisoned... <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo-->
He certainly cared nothing for the sacredness of Ganga Jalam; he probably just reached out to it thinking it must be pure because the Hindus regarded it as such.
Some of that is also mentioned by Sandhya Jain in her 'Did Vedic Hindus really eat cow?' which also mentions how Taranath likewise changed the meaning of the Ashvamedha Yagna.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->EVen aurangzeb was a vegetarian, he says, and used Gangajal for his daily use. (I am not sure about these)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Me neither.
<b><i>If</i></b> there's any truth to the Aurangzeb bit at all (Hindus do eagerly grasp at all sorts of possibilities that present themselves to think the muslims were more like us and therefore sympathetic), there are far simpler explanations that won't turn the faithful Aurangzeb, poster-boy for islam, into a kafir:
Aurangzeb could have been a vegetable - sorry, 'vegetarian' - because his family hated him and he was afraid of being food poisoned... <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo-->
He certainly cared nothing for the sacredness of Ganga Jalam; he probably just reached out to it thinking it must be pure because the Hindus regarded it as such.