Dear Valerie,


You may look into Giacomo Benedetti’s 2015 article in the Journal of Asian Civilizations 38(1) “The story of Ekaśṛṅga in the Mahāvastu with its parallels,” where he discusses its similarity with the story of Enkidu and its line of transmission, as well as refers to previous studies on the subject.


With best wishes,

Hélène


Dr. Hélène de Brux
Postdoctoral fellow
École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris


On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 12:54 AM Valerie Roebuck via INDOLOGY <indology@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

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