hair's colour in sanskrit

[JAYABARATHI]

Dominique.Thillaud wrote:
> 
> At 12:58 +0200 28/04/97, I wrote:
> >Dear indologists,
> >       That's very hard to find in a dictionary the words who design
> >hair's colours in epic. I'm interrested by the names for:
> >       white-haired, red-haired, blond-haired, black-haired
> > 

	Dear Monsieur Thillaud,

	Regarding hair's colour in Sanskrit:
	I beg to inform that I am not a Sanskritologist.But with due	
	humility, may I provide what may serve as pointers with what 
	little that I know...

	As someone has already pointed out,the 'colour' followed
	by 'haired' seems to be the general rule.
	
	Black-hair-
	
	nIla SikurA- Lalitha Sahasranaama
	
	susnigdha nIlAlaka SrENi SrungArithE-
					     SyAmaLA dhandakam

	harikESa upavIdhinE - Sri Rudram		
				
	Golden Haired-

	The HiranyakESi Dharmasutra is by a person named
`	HiranyakESin

	Sometime ago I came across a passage whcch mentions about
	a Vedic referance. In this referance, the Brahmins are 
	said to possess yellow hair and whiskers.
	
	In the same source , Indra was described as having stout
	neck, very muscular body and yellow hair and whiskers and beard.
	(Arnold Swarzenegger?)
	I don't remember the source. May be someone better equipped might
	help?
	Probably this colour description might be the closest that
	we can get to "Blond Hair"
	
	Siva is considered to be Red-haired according to Tamil
	traditions. I don't know any corrolaries in Sanskrit.
	The Siva Sahasranaamam and the Sri Rudram are silent about this.
	
        I hope somebody can follow up and clarify.

	Bon Jour, Monsieur,


	JAYABARATHI

	Sungai Petani
	Kedah
	Malaysia.




 someone help me ?
> >Thanks in advance,
> >       Dominique
> 
>         Many sanskritists on the list but not an answer (even private).
>         I suppose that was a great blasphem to ask Indians about hair's colour!
>         I apologize.
>         Worst, I was laughing about Vedic hypertechnology and their 'flying
> saucers'.
>         I apologize.
>         I find too much nationalistic messages on the list. I presume too
> many Indian peoples are hoping a civil war in Bharat and are using
> historical, arheological and linguistical arguments to confort their
> ideological arguments.
>         I love peace and I hope to be wrong, but Europa's history show well
> the terrific role played by ideologists. Remember the nazi scholar (I've
> happily forget his name) who said 'Saxon' < 'Isaac's son'!
>         I apologize to be sad.
>         I apologize to leave.
> Dominique
> 
> Dominique THILLAUD
> Universite' de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France