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Devdutt Pattanaik

How Vishnu became a vegetarian missionary

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The reversal shows up inside a single deity. In the Vishnu Purana, 1,500 years ago, Vishnu becomes the hermit Mayamoha, the deluder, and persuades the Asuras to abandon Vedic animal sacrifice.
How Vishnu became a vegetarian missionary
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