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Isis and Pattinī: The Transmission of a Religious Idea from Roman Egypt to India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

R. C. C. Fynes
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Attempts to show that similarities between the religious cults of different places are due to a transmission of ideas often have little basis in fact: the similarities may be more apparent than real, and may be more convincingly explained by other factors. Nevertheless, there is strong, albeit not conclusive, evidence for the following suggestion of an example of cultural transmission from the Graeco-Roman world to India.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , November 1993 , pp. 377 - 391
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1993

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