The sacrifice of horses, in fact, is in no way specific to Vedic India: only the ritual of this sacrifice is, very different from that of the funerar… - Gérard Fussman

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The sacrifice of horses, in fact, is in no way specific to Vedic India: only the ritual of this sacrifice is, very different from that of the funerary ritual of Sintashta. The Indian aśvamedha is in no way a funeral ritual.

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About Gérard Fussman

Gérard Fussman (17 May 1940 – 14 May 2022) was a French indologist who was a professor at the Collège de France.

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