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Tirumular, author of Tirumanthiram, supports non-killing like Tiru Valluvar, author of Tamil Veda Tirukkural. Even if one asks another person to kill animals for meat, the person will be born as a Pig, he warns.

Those who ask others to kill animals (for meat)

Those who force others to eat meat

Will be born as pigs and suffer in seven types of hell

This is the order by Lord Siva! True indeed!- Tirumanthiram

கொன்றிலாரை கொலச் சொல்லிகூறினார்

தின்றிலாரை தினச் சொலி தெண்டித்தார்

பன்றியாய் படியில்பிறந்து ஏழ் நரகு 

ஒன்றுவார் அரன் ஆணை! இது உண்மையே!

Tiru Valluvar also assures a definite seat in hell for people who eat meat

உண்ணாமை உள்ளது உயிர்நிலை ஊனுண்ண

அண்ணாத்தல் செய்யாது அளறு.–255

If flesh you eat not, life’s abodes unharmed remain;

Who eats, hell swallows him, and renders not again.-255

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Tiruvalluvar also hits at Buddhists who pretend to be vegetarians; they eat meat , if it is killed by others. If there is no one to buy, who will kill animals, he asks. Sri Lankan Buddhists wait by the side of the forest roads just to get killed animals like deer

தினற்பொருட்டால் கொல்லாது உலகெனின் யாரும்

விலைப்பொருட்டால் ஊன்றருவா ரில்.

‘We eat the slain,’ you say, by us no living creatures die;

Who’d kill and sell, I pray, if none came there the flesh to buy?- Kural

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Manu Smriti also supports Non- Killing.  One  would get the merits of performing 100 Aswamedha Yagas

वर्षे वर्षेऽश्वमेधेन यो यजेत शतं समाः ।
मांसानि च न खादेद् यस्तयोः पुण्यफलं समम् ॥ Manu 5-५३ ॥

varṣe varṣe’śvamedhena yo yajeta śataṃ samāḥ |
māṃsāni ca na khāded yastayoḥ puṇyaphalaṃ samam ||5- 53 Manu ||

If a man performs the Aśvamedha Sacrifice every year, for a hundred tears,—and another does not eat meat,—the merit and reward of both these are the same.—(53.) 

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The diseases are caused by killing animals, says Tiruvalluvar

உயிருடம்பின் நீக்கியா ரென்ப செயிருடம்பின்

செல்லாத்தீ வாழ்க்கை யவர்-330

Who lead a loathed life in bodies sorely pained,

Are men, the wise declare, by guilt of slaughter stained.—330

If you kill animals in this birth, you will be born a sick person in your next birth.

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கொலைவினைய ராகிய மாக்கள் புலைவினையர்

புன்மை தெரிவா ரகத்து.குறள் 329:

Whose trade is ‘killing’, always vile they show,

To minds of them who what is vileness know.- Kural 329

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Manu’s list of Animal Births

Manu Smriti gives a long list animal birth.  It includes lizard, pig, donkey etc. Most of the Saivite saints say they were born as worms, birds, animals before taking this human birth

 Here is the list:

54. Those who committed mortal sins (mahapataka), having passed during large numbers of years through dreadful hells, obtain, after the expiration of (that term of punishment), the following births.

55. The slayer of a Brahmana enters the womb of a dog, a pig, an ass, a camel, a cow, a goat, a sheep, a deer, a bird, a Kandala, and a Pukkasa.

56. A Brahmana who drinks (the spirituous liquor called) Sura shall enter (the bodies) of small and large insects, of moths, of birds, feeding on ordure, and of destructive beasts.

57. A Brahmana who steals (the gold of a Brahmana shall pass) a thousand times (through the bodies) of spiders, snakes and lizards, of aquatic animals and of destructive Pisakas.

58. The violator of a Guru’s bed (enters) a hundred times (the forms) of grasses, shrubs, and creepers, likewise of carnivorous (animals) and of (beasts) with fangs and of those doing cruel deeds.

59. Men who delight in doing hurt (become) carnivorous (animals); those who eat forbidden food, worms; thieves, creatures consuming their own kind; those who have intercourse with women of the lowest castes, Pretas.

60. He who has associated with outcasts, he who has approached the wives of other men, and he who has stolen the property of a Brahmana become Brahmarakshasas.

61. A man who out of greed has stolen gems, pearls or coral, or any of the many other kinds of precious things, is born among the goldsmiths.

62. For stealing grain (a man) becomes a rat, for stealing yellow metal a Hamsa, for stealing water a Plava, for stealing honey a stinging insect, for stealing milk a crow, for stealing condiments a dog, for stealing clarified butter an ichneumon;

63. For stealing meat a vulture, for stealing fat a cormorant, for stealing oil a winged animal (of the kind called) Tailapaka, for stealing salt a cricket, for stealing sour milk a bird (of the kind called) Balaka.

64. For stealing silk a partridge, for stealing linen a frog, for stealing cotton-cloth a crane, for stealing a cow an iguana, for stealing molasses a flying-fox;

65. For stealing fine perfumes a musk-rat, for stealing vegetables consisting of leaves a peacock, for stealing cooked food of various kinds a porcupine, for stealing uncooked food a hedgehog.

66. For stealing fire he becomes a heron, for stealing household-utensils a mason-wasp, for stealing dyed clothes a francolin-partridge;

67. For stealing a deer or an elephant a wolf, for stealing a horse a tiger, for stealing fruit and roots a monkey, for stealing a woman a bear, for stealing water a black-white cuckoo, for stealing vehicles a camel, for stealing cattle a he-goat.

68. That man who has forcibly taken away any kind of property belonging to another, or who has eaten sacrificial food (of) which (no portion) had been offered, inevitably becomes an animal.

69. Women, also, who in like manner have committed a theft, shall incur guilt; they will become the females of those same creatures (which have been enumerated above).

–subham–

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