[INDOLOGY] Enkidu and Ṛṣyaśṛṅga

[Nataliya Yanchevskaya]

Dear Valerie,
Please take a look at this article:

https://www.mprl-series.mpg.de/proceedings/7/6/index.html

The story and its related motifs most likely originate in Mesopotamia,
though this isn’t entirely certain.
Best wishes,
Nataliya

On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 6:56 PM Valerie Roebuck via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
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