Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c29.11

c29.11

§ 186. With regard to the general suggestion as to the Mongolian basis of India's population "as late as the early centuries A.C.," no amount of "it is possible" or opining can satisfy me or one who reads in the Mahābhāshya that the Brahmin still had fair eyes and fair hair (गौरः पिङ्गलः कपिणकेशः on P., V. 1 115) and who reads in the Gopatha Brāhmaṇa that the Vaiśya was still Sukla or white and who reads in the Dharma-Sāstras that the Sūdra woman was still the 'black beauty' of the land. The republics, as we have seen, had Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaiśyas and Sūdras. The Greeks saw them and admired their physique from their point of view. They could not have praised snub-noses. An ounce of evidence is weighter than tons of theories, be it ethnology or Indology.