Hi,

I think at that time a kshatriya (khattiya) is not necessary
belonging to an Aryan. For example, the kingdom of Videha (capital
city: Mithila) whose people are not Aryans.

Regards,

Thomas Law

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Jacques Huynen <jhuynen@...> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I agree with Dmytrio. There is no such thing as
> Nepali racial features since Nepal is precisely the
> meeting ground of the "indo-european" and "mongoloïd"
> stock. It seems it was already the case at the time of
> the Buddha (cf E.J. Thomas, The Life of the Buddha,
> Legend and History). But since the Buddha is
> considered by all source as a kshatriya (khattiya),
> the second highest aryan cast or varna, he must have
> been of indo-european stock, especially if one
> considers that at that early period there wasn't yet
> much mixing between the two stocks as was going to
> happen later when some invaders from Central Asia were
> given the status of Kshatriya to become the present
> days Rajputs.
>
> Jacques Huynen
>
> --- "Dmytro O. Ivakhnenko" <aavuso@...> wrote:
>
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > > I wonder any one in this group knows the Buddha's
> > racial appearance
> > > according to the Pali texts. He was born in the
> > Nepal region. The
> > > inhabitants in the region at that time may be
> > closer to the Himalayan
> > > race.
> >
> > As a representative of Ariya higher varna, Buddha
> > must have looked like
> > like Slav, Osset, or Persian (Iranian-Afghan).
> >
> > Genetic analysis shows that the higher varnas in
> > India still are much
> > closer genetically to Europeans, than the lower
> > varnas.
> >
> >
> http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/05_01/Indo-European.shtml
> >
> https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html
> >
> > Probably the earliest Gandhara and Mathura images
> > preserve his features:
> >
> > http://www.answers.com/topic/buddhahead-jpg
> > http://www.gandhara.com.au/gandhara_showcase5.html
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MathuraBodhisattvaSide.JPG
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dmytro
> >
>
>
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