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

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Mythology Is the Literature of the People

Mythology is the stuff of the people. The vernacular mythologys are composed by men, because really only men read sanscrit in ancient mediaeval india. You couldn't go out of te he schoolroom into the worldn buy a meal or talk to your wife or your nanny or your cook unless you spoke whatever the real language was of your so any sanscuitis was by lingpe. So even though they were composed ultimately by men, those are the stories of the people,. And they are vernacular stories, and they're very simple stories, though not all complicated. Even sansequet literature is, in a sense, plebeian. It

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