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A maritime Rigveda? How not to read ancient texts To impute modern/medieval meanings when reading the Rigveda is a dangerous undertaking as it is with all archaic texts, from Homer to the Bible to Confucius. Even Shakespeare, who wrote a mere 400 years ago, is not always immediately accessi ble to readers of modern English. |
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