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Man Overboard: The Rig Veda's Shipwreck and the Sea That Should Not Be There
A man is abandoned in open water and carried home in a ship with a hundred oars. The Rig Veda tells this story in fourteen hymns, from a world with no coastline. What its poets actually knew about the sea turns out to be a harder question than either side of the old argument admits.