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Ask Devdutt Pattanaik: Murder and justice in Indian scriptures

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What Kind of Violence Is Justifiable?

In Hindu scriptures it's more those high level constitutional conversations rather than very clear laws. Even in the Buddhist text when you read the Vinayapitaka it's really how monks are supposed to behave. The entire religion is highly legal. Is there anywhere where murder is justified? No, word is never justified. State has exclusive right to violence and so now people are using what is the state-sponsored terrorism.

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