Siva and Vishnu (was: Kinship systems)

[Vanbakkam Vijayaraghavan]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:48:57 GMT, N. Ganesan <naga_ganesan at HOTMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>H. H. Hock, Through a glass darkly: Modern "racial"
>interpretations vs. textual and general prehistoric
>evidence on Arya and dAsa/dasyu in Vedic society
>(p. 145-174, Aryan and Non-Aryan in India, 1999).
>
>p. 150-1
>"[6] AryaM prAvad ... svarmi.lhe.sv ... |
>    ... tvacaM k.r.s.nAm arandhayat (1.130.8)
>  Ge: 'Indra helped the Aryan in the battles for the
>  sunlight ... he made the black skin subject ...[8]
>(Geldner's note: 'the black skin'[9] refers to 'the
>black aborgines'[10])."
>
>Some other translations from the RV given are:
>(see the original Skt., discussion by Dr. Hock etc.,
>in his paper)
>
>"Ge: 'Fifty thousand Blacks you defeated. You slit up
>the forts like age [slits up] a garment.' [11]
>
>"Ge: 'Out of fear of you the black tribes moved way, leaving
>behind their possessions without fight...'[14]
>
>There are many more like these.


Like the DMK election posters when Kamaraj was alive, he was called
'Appirikka azhage' in a snide and depracating way. Kamaraj was black, but
the Dravida political parties used to downgrade him as 'African beauty'?

Or like the big cut-outs along the Anna Salai in Madras, where even people
like Mooppanar have rosy cheeks and their faces 'whited out' so that they
are saleable electorally to the Tamil population?