"One does more justice to the way of thinking of the poets of the Rgveda and the nature of this text if one places the term krsnä tvac in RV 1.130.8 in the context of the ideas of the "skin" or the "black skin" that are common elsewhere and thus assigns it to the vocabulary of Rgvedic mythology, especially since the equation of the Dasyu and Dasa with the non-Aryan population of northwest India can be doubted with good reason."
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SCHETELICH, MARIA. "Die „schwarzen“ Feinde der Arya im Ṛgveda" Altorientalische Forschungen, vol. 18, no. 1, 1991, pp. 151-162. https://doi.org/10.1524/aofo.1991.18.1.151 p. 161-2
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