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by Amezarak 2769 days ago
Sumerian and the story of Gilgamesh predated Sanskrit.
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We have a similar story in one of the older Sanskrit works.

http://edition-open-access.de/proceedings/7/6/index.html

Your link suggests the Indian story is based on the Sumerian or Akkadian. That would be news to me. It’s certainly possible, but in my personal opinion people often go astray with these methods - there’s little reason to believe many examples couldn’t have evolved independently based on similar real world occurrences or common human archetypes.