Defence of Hinduism

 4Death seeks to kill Brahmins because of the failure to recite the Vedas, the dereliction of the rules of proper conduct, laziness, and faults with respect to food.

Chapter 5

If he gets the urge, let him make an animal out of butter or flour; but he must never entertain the desire to kill an animal for a futile reason. 38When a man kills an animal for a futile reason, after death he will be subject in birth after birth to being slain as many times as the number of hairs on that animal.

45If someone, craving his own pleasure, harms harmless creatures, he will not find happiness anywhere while he is still alive or after death. 46When someone has no desire to tie up, kill, or cause pain* to living creatures and seeks the welfare of all beings, he obtains endless bliss. 47Whatever a man contemplates, whatever a man undertakes, whatever a man takes a liking to*—all that he obtains without effort, when he does no harm to any creature.

Chapter 8

When a man kills in accordance with the Law to protect his life, in a conflict over sacrificial fees,* or in defense of women or Brahmins, he remains untainted.

350When an assailant attacks with the intent to kill—whether he is an elder, a child, an old person, or a learned Brahmin—one may surely kill him without