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the word Nordic has now become inapplicable. The word Uraloid appears to be nearer the truth. It is exact and scientific.
The stature and skin colour of a particular racial stock provides the best distinguishing features. The formation of head, whether a particular stock is dolichoArya-Varna and Das-Varna cephalic (narrow-headed) or brachycephalic (round-headed), has also been accepted as a standard of measurement. Regarding the skin colour of the Aryans and their adversaries; Ṛgveda gives us an accurate picture. The Aryan Usas are white-complexioned. Agni is golden-haired. Indra and his friends are white-complexioned. Indra is of goodly features. Maruts are handsome-chinned. Indra is protector of the Arya Varna'. In contrast to the AryaVarņa stands the Dāsa-Varna. Dāsas were black-skinned. Indra protects Arya-Varna and consigns Dāsa-Varna to the cavern. Agni consumes the cities of his foe who are dark-complexioned. Soma drives off the dark-skinned. Indra, the slayer of Vṛtra, the destroyer of cities, has scattered the black-sprung servile hosts. This description clearly reveals that the Aryan and the Dasas were two distinct and independent large ethnic groups arrayed against each other. If the Aryas and the Dāsas had been of the same blood and descended from one ancestor; Svetavarņa could not be the monopoly of Aryas alone. Both Aryas and Dāsas would have been white comlexioned or dark-complexioned. Rather, looking to the climatic conditions of the Sapta-Saraswati region; both would have been dark-complexioned. Two distinct colours in Ṛgveda clearly indicate two distinct ethnic groups.
The black-skinned ethnic group was wide spread. Sumerians were dark-headed people. The Egyptians were
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