Criticism of Hinduism

funerary women sacrifice

thumb|Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the founder of Hindutva.

Purushamedha (or Naramedha) is a Śrauta ritual of mock human sacrifice. The Vajasaneyi Samhita-Sataphatha Brahmana-Katyayana Srauta Sutra sequence of Shukla Yajur Veda texts contains the most details.