Is killing infidels allowed in Hindu Scriptures?

Question

Yajur Veda 13.12,

”O king, make progress in thy duty of administration, extend happiness to the virtuous. O terrible chastiser, burn down the irreligious foes. O splendid person, humiliate and consume utterly like dried up stubble, him, who encourages our foe.”

Atharva Veda 12.5.62

Rend, rend to bits, rend through and through, scorch and consume and burn to dust, the one who rejects the Vedas

Atharva Veda 12.2.23

He who dwells fixed in the atmosphere, smiting the blasphemers of the god that do not sacrifice to him be reverence with ten Sakvari-stanzas.

Atharva Veda 10.3.3

This charm shall conquer and cast down thy foemen. Be thou the first to slay the men who hate thee.

Atharva Veda 20.93.1

May our hymns give you great delight. Display your bounty, Thudered. Drive off [kill] the enemies of the Vedas.

Everyone must kill Blaspemers:

Rig Veda 6.72.1

ye killed all darkness and the Gods’ blasphemers.

Srimad Bhagvatam 4.4.17

Sati continued: If one hears an irresponsible person blaspheme the master and controller of religion, one should block his ears and go away if unable to punish him. But if one is able to kill, then one should by force cut out the blasphemer’s tongue and kill the offender, and after that one should give up his own life.

Answer 1

No , killing of Infidels are not fully allowed in Vedas. There are some mantras in Atharva-Veda which asks god agni about destroying evil minds of foes , pardoning / Sheltering then , Welcoming those who came to ask pardon /shelter. Destroying only evil-nature or evil-mind of foes and not the people , even Atharva-Veda prays to god agni for welfare of son's and daughter's of evil-minded people and to motivate them towards good path.

Atharva-Veda , First Kandam , Sukta 7 & 8 , YatudhanNashan Sukta.

Atharva-Veda Samhita , Translated by Pandit ShriRam Sharma Acharya. Published by - Yuga Nirmaan Yojana , Mathura , Uttar-Pradesh , which is a hindi translation.

These are some of the mantras from Atharva-Veda.

पश्याम ते वीर्यम् जातवेदा प्र णो ब्रुहि यतुधानान नृचक्ष: ।
त्वया सर्वे परितप्ता: पुरस्तात त आ यन्तु प्रब्रुवाणा उपेदम ॥ 7.5॥

O Agni you are the form of the knowledge , let us see your bright bravery. You are the guide to whom who have lost the right way. By your grace lead our foes to the right path. By your order, let wickedness come here to repentance by identifying themselves.

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अयं स्तुवान आगमदिमं स्म प्रति हर्यत ।
बृहस्पते वशे लब्ध्वाग्निषोमा वि विध्यतम् ॥ 8.2॥

Welcoming those wicked minded people who came here for repentance. O guiding star! source of bright knowladge! By your grace take them in your control. To cure them, O Agni & Soma examine them.

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यातुधानस्य सोमप जहि प्रजां नयस्व च ।
नि स्तुवानस्य पातय परमक्षुतावरम् ॥8.3॥

O Soma! you let us drink the nectar of knowledge by your grace. Let the evil-nature gets destroyed by roots, let this reach to the children of evil-minded once & let them also be made good minded. Let the eyes be lowered of those, who praise you.

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so from above shlokas of Atharva-Veda it is clear that vedas do not at all support/suggest the concept of infidels. It supports a Humanist approach towards enemies, evil-minded people.

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Answer 2

https://primitivehindu.wordpress.com/2019/06/11/vedas-teach-to-kill-infidels-rubbish/

Yajur Veda 13.12: Rise up, O Agni, spread thee out before us, burn down our foes, thou who hast sharpened arrows. Him, blazing Agni! who hath worked us mischief, consume thou utterly like dried-up stubble. (Griffith)

There is no reference to irreligious here. That is a mistranslation.

Atharva Veda 12.5.62: Rend, rend to bits, rend through and through, scorch and consume and burn to dust. (Griffith)

Again there is no reference to infidels or irreligious. This hymn and previous hymn is all about On the duty of giving cows to Brāhmans, and the sin and danger of withholding the gift.

Atharva Veda 11.2.23 (Not Atharva Veda 12.2.23):

यो३न्तरिक्षे तिष्ठति विष्टभितोऽयज्वनः प्रमृणन् देवपीयून्। तस्मै नमो॑ दशभिः शक्वरीभिः

Homage be paid him with ten Sakvari verses who stands established in the air's mid-region, slaying non-sacrificing God-despisers! (Griffith)

This verse is basically describing Rudra who killed those who are Devapiyun (देवपीयून्) which means god blasphemers. Nothing about ordering believers of Vedas to kill who are god blasphemers.

Further, in the Vedas Dasyus are mentioned as Devapiyun. So, this verse says Rudra destroyed Dasyus.

Atharva Veda 10.3.3 This charm shall conquer and cast down thy foemen. Be thou the first to slay the men who hate thee.

This hymn is in the context of addressing to some other human. So, when the 3rd verse says “be you the first to slay the men who hate you”, it is addressing to some other human and advising him to use this hymn to slay the one who hate him. This is not about killing those who hate god.

In Atharva Veda 20.93.1 the word Brahmadvish is translated as those who are enemy of Vedas. Only Raksasas are mentioned in the Vedas are Brahmadvish (Rig Veda 7.104.2), which means this verse is a prayer by sages to kill Rasksasas.

Rig Veda 6.72.1:

इन्द्रासोमा महि तद वां महित्वं युवं महानि परथमानि चक्रथुः | युवं सूर्यं विविदथुर्युवं सवर्विश्वा तमांस्यहतं निदश्च ||

The Sanskrit word “nida” here is a compressed form of Devanido (देवनिदो). In the Vedas, Raksasas are mentioned as Devanido, so this verse is also about Indra and Soma killing Raksasas.

Answer 3

This all is copied from a muslim sources.

And the vedas aren't contains the verses like Qur'an or Bible.

These all are the hymns with which we pray to god.

And If you read the names of the hymns from Vedas, the subject of them are given in their title. And those meanings are also very clear.

Not a single verse from any vedas commands to kill any living creature.

They all are the hymns. For example atharva veda 12:2:23 Which means, Atharva veda book-12 - hymn-2. The name of hymn-2 is A funeral hymn, and deprecation of Agni the Consumer of corpses.