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| Blue and green eyed Central Asians are not uncommon even today (Blue_agava/flickr.com) |
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The historical Buddha was a Scythian (Shakyian), among whom blue eyes are not so uncommon. The
Shakyians (also referred to as the Sakas, Sakkas, and Sakyas), controlled territory between modern Iran (ancient
Aryan Persia) to the west, India (Gandhara, Bharat, Indo-Pakistan) to the east, and as far north as
Kazakhstan and Ukraine (all called "Scythia" by the ancient Greeks), going from Central Asia up to Northern Asia and Russia's East.
The Buddha said it of himself -- in
The Story of the Lineage (
Nidana Katha, translated by Rhys Davids and included in his
Jataka Tales work,
Buddhist Birth-Stories) -- that he was of the "solar race," a noble (
Aryan), which was taken in India to mean a
kshatriya (warrior)-caste nobleman (royal).
The Shakyian Prince Siddhartha Gautama (matrilineal name from his mothers, the Gotami/Gaumata sisters) came from the "Middle Country" (
Majjhima-desa), which refers to Central Asia and Middle East, in line with Northern India (Gandhara, Indo-Scythia).
Dr. Pal claims the mothers were from Seistan-Balochistan (not Nepal), a province in Southern Afghanistan between Iran and Pakistan.
But in Buddhism aryan went from the concrete meaning Indo-Iranian (
ariyan) to ennobled in the sense of "enlightened." This gets into the ugly subject of the "Aryan Invasion" theories, as if India and the glorious Indus Valley Civilization that preceded it could not have developed (with the usual aid of
akasha-devas), without European or Northern Asian intervention, the conquerors bringing technological advancements like Romans overtaking and uplifting backward Israel.
Clearly sudden advancements come to Earth not from Earth but from more mysterious origins, then everyone tries to take credit for them as created by their group.
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