BrahminBoss
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In the attempt to ransack the latter-day Sanskrit texts for proofs of Nordic characteristics, . . . we forget that if in latter day Sanskrit texts sentences such as "Gaura [white, yellowish), . . . pingala [reddish brown, tawny, golden], kapilkesa [brown or tawny hair]" are to be found in Patanjali's Mahabhasya (V. 1. 115) and if Manu has said diat a Brahmana should not marry a girl with pingala hair (38) there are other sentences in previous ages which contradict the strength of these characteristics. But with the help of these two sentences attempt is being made to prove the existence of Nordic characteristics amongst the Indian people. . . . The God Rudra is described to have possessed golden hair . . . yet we cannot make a Nordic viking out of him, as he had brown-hued skin-colour and golden-coloured arm. . . . Surely we cannot take the god Rudra as a specimen of race-.. we beg to state that these allegories should be accepted as poetic fancies. They cannot be used as scientific data, for anthropological purpose. (Dutta 1936, 248-252)
