| Arise Arjuna Hinduism And The Modern World |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| THE ARYAN-DRAVIDIAN DIVIDE | |
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That Gujarat was a once suspect land to Vedic people when it was under Jain domination does not cause us to turn the Gujaratis into another race or religion. That something similar happened to the Dravidians at a point in history does not require making them permanently non-Aryan. In the history of Europe, for example, that Austria once went through a Protestant phase, does not cause modern Austrians to consider that they cannot be Catholics.The kings of South India, like the Chola and Pandya dynasties, relate their lineages back to Manu. The Matsya Purana moreover makes Manu, the progenitor of all the Aryas, originally a South Indian king, Satyavrata. Therefore there are not only traditions that make the Dravidians descendants of Vedic rishis and kings, but those that make the Aryans of North India descendants of Dravidian kings. The two cultures are so intimately related that it is difficult to say which came first. Any differences between them appear to be secondary, and nothing exists like the great racial divide that the Aryan-Dravidian idea has promoted.
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