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1940–2022 France

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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A. Parpola is an abundant writer, but not very rational.

Unfortunately, E. E. Kuzmina, whose archaeological knowledge is very vast, uses Indian sources in very outdated translations and knows neither how to criticize them nor how to scale them over time: Indian civilization is not immutable.

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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