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S2E12: History and myth always live together: a conversation with Wendy Doniger

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The Buddhist Horses and the Puranas

I was very curious about a chapter on the buddhist horses. How do you really distinguish between horses in the puranas and hors in the buddhis canon, as it were? Well, it's interesting. On the one hand, again, you have the basic distinction between wonderful stallions and wicked mares that stays in the budDhist textsi. And when the buddha says good bye to the horse for ever, because he is going to become a mendicant and has no use for a royal steed, the horse weeps. The theme of the weeping horse is a buddhist theme, not a hindoo thing. His is related to hindoo

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