sambya ji,
yes I know the story of gauda saraswat, there are few in Bihar too, but they only call themselves saraswat now. By the way, today gaud saraswat are thickly populated in coastal karnatka and maharashtra only.
I can give few reasons, why some castes became non-vegeterains. Like in mithla region of bihar, flood comes every year, so there is abundance of fish, but drought of cereals, so with time, mithla people became forced by nature to live on fish. Also there is abundance of fish in costal regions of karnatka (but proper irrigation soil may be lacking), that's why gaud saraswat might have turned non-vegy in those areas. Also yes these people originated from region around saraswati river.
Yes, some translation may be sectarian and few tantrik texts or purans may contain hints of meat eating like, jeernam jeernam vatapi jeernam by agastya rishi, but i don't see anything lke bali in vedic sacrifises, I don't say some sects give 100% correct vedic translations, but logically I don't see any sacrifices, how ever many texts asks us to refrain from any himsa to animals.
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