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What was the motivation for the prohibition on eating onions and garlic?
I've heard two speculations:
1) Onions & garlic are used to flavor meat, so they are guilty by association. I've heard the Jains have a similar prohibition for this reason.
2) Onions & garlic incite the "passions"-- in other words, its a Indian…
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