I followed a Beckwithian footnote down the rabbit hole of Zarathustra and Ancient Persian history
Bits of it are sketchy, but there’s very strong documentation of intellectual transfers between India and Greece >
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from ~500BC to ~500AD, interestingly mediated by Persia, which controlled the routes between. Then, Huns, and then, Islam :(
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@Meaningness I am reading about the 5th c. BC period- Gandhāra & the Formation of the Vedic and Zoroastrian Canons https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9887626/Gandh%C4%81ra%20and%20the%20formation%20of%20the%20Vedic%20and%20Zoroastrian%20canons%20copy_0.pdf?sequence=1 … - 2 more replies
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