ebooks Onomasticon of the Hittite Pantheon (Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik) (Handbuch Der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung; Nahe Und Mittle) by Ben Gessel in History

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This is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism; which was geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE; transformed itself and spread all over South and Southeast Asia. Brahmanism spread over this vast area without the support of an empire; without the help of conquering armies; and without the intermediary of religious missionaries. This phenomenon has no parallel in world history; yet shaped a major portion of the surface of the earth for a number of centuries. This book focuses on the formative period of this phenomenon; roughly between Alexander and the Guptas.