The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s4.10

c9.s4.10

While acknowledging the debts of Aryan or Vedic culture to India it should at the same time be reasonable to suspect that the Aryanization of Magadha (Northern Bihar) and Videha (South Bihar) was skin-deep.¹⁴ The Aryans of the *Madhyadeśa* (Kuru-Pāñchāla) region could not but look upon the inhabitants of the *Prāchyadeśa*, the region to the East of the *Sadānīrā*¹⁵ (Gaṇḍaki) River as wanting in sanctity and unsuitable for the performance of sacrifices.