Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History

by Wendy Doniger

Horses are not indigenous to India. They had to be imported, making them expensive and elite animals. How then did Indian villagers--who could not afford horses and often had never even seen a horse--create such wonderful horse stories and brilliant visual images of horses? In Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares, Wendy Doniger, called "the greatest living mythologist," examines the horse's significance throughout Indian history from the arrival of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813945755
• ISBN13: 9780813945750
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 9.2"