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By Swami Harshananda

Sometimes transliterated as: Mahsahara, MAhsAhara, Maahsaahara

Māsāhara literally means ‘meat as food’.

The food that a human being consumes may be of two types. They are:

Sasyāhāra - vegetarian food
Mārhsāhāra - non-vegetarian food, flesh or meat

Though mārhsāhāra was quite com¬mon in the earlier ages, it was gradually superseded by sasyāhāra because the latter came to be considered as more sāttvik and hence more conducive to spiritual pursuits. The spread of Vedāntic ideas as also Jainism and Buddhism contributed not a little to this trend.

References

The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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-Mariahara literally means ‘meat as food’.
+Māsāhara literally means ‘meat as food’.
-The food that a human being con¬sumes may be sasyāhāra (vegetarian food) or mārhsāhāra (non-vegetarian food, flesh or meat). Though mārhsāhāra was quite com¬mon in the earlier ages, it was gradually superseded by sasyāhāra because the latter came to be considered as more sāttvik and hence more conducive to spiritual pursuits. The spread of Vedāntic ideas as also Jainism and Buddhism contributed not a little to this trend.
+The food that a human being consumes may be of two types. They are:
+# Sasyāhāra - vegetarian food
+# Mārhsāhāra - non-vegetarian food, flesh or meat
+Though mārhsāhāra was quite com¬mon in the earlier ages, it was gradually superseded by sasyāhāra because the latter came to be considered as more sāttvik and hence more conducive to spiritual pursuits. The spread of Vedāntic ideas as also Jainism and Buddhism contributed not a little to this trend.