History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c25.9

v2.c25.9

Another reason why the term Aryan should be applied to the style is, that the country just described, where it prevails, is, and always has been, called Âryâvarta by the natives themselves. They consider it as the land of the pure and just—meaning thereby the Sanskrit-speaking peoples—as contradistinguished from that of the casteless Dasyus, and other tribes, who, though they may have adopted Brahmanical institutions, could not acquire their purity of race.