History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c96.s1.21

v7.c96.s1.21

[^2605 A]: *Vide* Leonard Woolf in 'Barbarians at the Gate' (London, 1939) p 54 for saying that 'white man's burden' was another name for economic imperialism and also p. 162 might of) Indra, making the waters to fall (from the sky), destroy hostile men coming to Indra, making all (the whole environment) noble they reach their proper sphere.' There is here no reference whatever to Vedic people making the whole world Ārya. At the most these verses may be interpreted as suggesting that Soma sacrifices to Indra would make the world *Ārya*. Then there is no message in it which modern Indians can give and spread. Soma plant itself became unavailable in Vedic times and substitutes had to be utilized. And hardly any solemn Vedic sacrifices have been performed for centuries in India and very rarely, if at all, Soma sacrifices.