[INDOLOGY] Enkidu and Ṛṣyaśṛṅga

[Valerie Roebuck]

Dear Colleagues

While listening recently to a dramatisation of the Epic of Gilgamesh on BBC Radio 4, I was very struck by the similarity of the story of the taming of the wild man Enkidu with that of the (temporary) taming of the sage Ṛṣyaśṛṅga/Ekaśṛṅga (Pali Isisiṅga) found in the Mahābhārata and the Jātakas. In view of the rather large disparity in space and time between these accounts, is there any possibility of a common influence? Has anyone looked into this?

Thank you

Valerie J Roebuck
Manchester, UK

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