
Ask Devdutt Pattanaik: Murder and justice in Indian scriptures
The Times Of India Podcast
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Is It a Serial Killer?
When we talk about murder, we're really talking about the human body being taken away. If I kill a child of yours, I can't replace that child, right? That's when murder comes to the picture and these are the questions that emerge in the scriptures very clearly. So yes, there is reference to these incidents in the scriptures and I have a shotgun, I found it in 900 BCE texts. The Canaan able story is the first murder," he says.
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