The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c10.128

v1.c10.128

**Features of Dasyus :** 'The last and most important argument of Mr. Fergusson in support of the non-Aryan origin of the Dasyus is founded upon their features; but in Sāñci the figures are generally so small, so rough, and so weather worn, that their indications of the aboriginal broad face and flat nose cannot be relied upon. That the appearance of youth, and beauty, and rank, and wealth, should be different from age, decay, decrepitude, and sqalid poverty, is a fact which none will question, and therefore what are taken in the sculptures for ethnic peculiarities, may be entirely due to a desire to mark the distinctions of condition.