Horses

Paul K. Manansala kabalen at MAIL.JPS.NET
Thu May 7 18:13:03 UTC 1998


>"Peter J. Claus" <pclaus at HAYWIRE.CSUHAYWARD.EDU>
wrote:


> On the other hand, it would not seem unreasonable that there might be
> little representation of the horse generally in India for a long time to
> come if our primary written sources are texts such as the Rg Veda (or for
> that matter ANY of the early Skrt texts) which only represent a very small
> minority of the population.  It seems to me to expect otherwise would be
> to expect that there was a flood of Aryans who invaded the region.  It
> does not seem likely that that was the case.
>

But how about among the invaders themselves?  Who were these invaders
in archaeological terms?  Did they make representations of horses?

Regards,
Paul Kekai Manansala





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