Soma and Amanita muscaria, John Brough's 1971 article in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, is a peer-reviewed philological critique of the theory identifying the Vedic soma plant with the fly agaric mushroom. Its strength is that Brough was a leading Sanskritist examining the textual evidence directly in a peer-reviewed journal. Its limit is that soma's botanical identity remains genuinely unresolved in the field, so this article represents one scholar's critical case rather than a settled answer.
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Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: a peer reviewed philological article by a leading specialist examining the textual evidence directly, one scholar's critical case rather than a settled answer to a genuinely unresolved question. NotesPeer-reviewed scholarly critique of the identification of the Vedic soma plant with Amanita muscaria, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1971.
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AuthorJohn Brough
PublisherBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Publication Year1971
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
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Soma, Deities This source names Soma directly: "Soma and Amanita muscaria, John Brough's 1971 article in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, is a peer-reviewed philological critique of the theory identifying the Vedic soma..."
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