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

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The Weeping Horse in the Moslem Mythology

Horses have been largely, as i hear you, somewhat alien to indian culture. So would you say that over the last millennium and a half, horses had been domesticated by this meats overti in ind? I think there are ways. Absolutely. You have various versions of the story of the horse that goes up against an elephant and rears up and a strikes the elephant with his hoofs,. And still he fights on and so forth. That's a story that's attributed to several different horses in different parts of rosput culture.

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