Ancient Indian Costume c6.5

c6.5

Racially, the early people of the Deccan were a hybrid race, a mixture of aboriginal Dravidians (or pre-Dravidians) and Scythians (Sakas), Parthians (Pahlavas), and Greeks (Yavanas). Buddhism and Mauryan culture had built up a civilized structure even before the Satavahanas established their empire. In the third century A.D. the Satavahanas were ousted by the Ikshvakus, who were themselves from the Deccan.