In Quest of Our Linguistic Ancestors

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http://tinyurl.com/bnx7bo

 

" In India, the earliest known Indo-European text, coming from the later

second millennium B.C., is the religious work, the Rig-Veda.30 Only

one god in the Rig-Veda has anything like a human pigmentation, and he

is the great warrior-god Indra. In personality and attributes, Indra

resembles the Germanic god Thor, and even his fair hair and beard

resemble Thor's red beard.31 Throughout the Rig-Veda, Indra often helps

the warlike Aryans—the Indo-European invaders of India—to battle

against the native Dasas and Dasyus, who are portrayed as dark-

skinned. In contrast, the Rig-Veda refers to Aryans as white and

having an " Aryan color " Day 2001). "

 

 

A good recent example of what " Indo-European " studies are about!

 

M. Kelkar

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Another gem from the above undated (post 2001) article.

 

" Nobody, Patañjali says, would look at a dark-skinned man and imagine

that he was a brahmin, from India's highest caste. Instead, he goes on,

everyone knows that brahmins have fair skins and kapila-kesa hair,

which translates as " brown " or " reddish-brown. "

 

 

M. KElkar