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The classical Indian Pravargya ritual integrates various ritual and mythological strands. Some of these are comparable with the mythology of the Holy Grail.
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The classical Indian Pravargya ritual was an original Indian development but some of its ritual and mythical strands had ancient Indo-european parallels of which reflections are found in the mythology of the Holy Grail.
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The classical Indian Pravargya ritual was an original Indian development: it was the result of the conscious design by one or more ritual "authors". They apparently made use of existing ritual and mythical elements having ancient Indo-european parallels of which reflections are found in the mythology of the Holy Grail.
Johannes Houben
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
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This page is a summary of: Le Pravargya et le Saint-Graal, Journal Asiatique, October 2006, Peeters Publishers,
DOI: 10.2143/ja.294.1.2017896.
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