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Rh anything; their rites are different; they are not men! O destroyer of foes, kill them! Destroy the Dasa race!"

Elsewhere Indra proclaims that he deprived the Dasyu race of the name of Arya; that he destroyed Navavastra and Brihadratha of the Dasa race; and that



he cut the Dasas in twain—"it is for this fate that they have been born!"

Such were the aborigines with whom the early Hindus carried on interminable war, and such was the fate to which they consigned their less civilized neighbours, the primeval owners of the Indian soil! It is abundantly evident that no love was lost between the conquerors and the conquered. It was by ceaseless fighting that the conquerors protected themselves in