ABSTRACT
One of the most basic challenges for a teacher of Hinduism and the Indian traditions
is constructing a fair narrative about the development of the concept of or non-injury. One of the easiest and most common ways to tell the story is that, while earlier sacrificers accepted violence in the form of victim immolation, the challenges of Buddhism and Jainism changed this view. After their emergence, Brahmin priests
incorporated their own doctrines of which have been a hallmark of the classical Hindu tradition ever since. There are other, ancillary arguments to this story as well.
