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Cultural Interaction between Ancient India and Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Shrirama Indradeva
Shrirama Indradeva*
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Ravishankar University, Raipur.
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Many obscure aspects of the growth of civilization in its early phase are illuminated when the traditional Iranian lore contained in the Zend-Avesta and the Pahlavi texts is analysed side by side with the Vedas and Brahmanical literature. Simultaneous study of the tradition of the two branches of the Aryans fills many gaps that would inevitably remain if we were to confine ourselves only to the Indian tradition.

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Diogenes , Volume 28 , Issue 111 , September 1980, pp. 83 - 109
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Copyright © 1980 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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