The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c10.129

v1.c10.129

**Origin of the word Dasyu :** ' It may be added that the term Dasyu itself is Aryan, and indicates an Aryan, and not a non-Aryan, race. According to Manu “ all those tribes of men who sprung from the mouth, the arm, the thigh, and the foot of Brahmā, but who became outcasts by having neglected their duties, are called Dasyus or plunderers ”.⁷⁷ And the designation therefore fails to convey the idea which the learned author of the *History of Architecture* wishes to attach to it ’. At Bhuvaneśvara, Puri, and Koṇārak, some of the statues (not of Dasyus) are from four to five feet high, and many of the statuettes and bas-reliefs are from eighteen inches to three feet in height, and their faces, contour and style, as already stated in the preceding chapter, are of an Indo-Aryan caste.