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The Hindu scholar, Lokmanya Tilak credited Jainism with influencing Hinduism and thus leading to the cessation of animal sacrifice in Vedic rituals.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak has described Jainism as the originator of Ahimsa and wrote in a letter printed in Bombay Samachar, Mumbai: 10 December 1904: " In ancient times, innumerable animals were butchered in sacrifices.

Evidence in support of this is found in various poetic compositions such as the Meghaduta.