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Document Details : Title: The Sauma Controversy after 1968 Author(s): TAILLIEU, D. Journal: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica Volume: 28 Date: 1997 Pages: 43-54 DOI: 10.2143/OLP.28.0.583549 Abstract : For more than two centuries Western scholarship has engaged in the quest for the original, Proto-Indo-Iranian (PIIr.) plant, the accepted common origin of the remarkably concordant Indian soma and Iranian haomatraditions. Despite many valuable contributions the botanical identity of saumaremains the issue of a lively controversy, which, nevertheless, has made substantial progress on various parts of the problem during the last three decades. |
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