"Indian literature, throughout history right from Rig Vedic times (e.g. Rig Veda book 10-hymn CXLVI) describes Aranyani, the forest dwelling Goddess, as benign and not demonic. It has regarded spirits of the forest as benign and people of the forest have been held in high esteems as fiercely independent people of nature, sometimes romanticized as more civilized and innocent than country dwelling populations of India (as in twelfth-century Vaishanava literature Thiruvaranga Kalambagam, which eulogizes and does not demonize the valour of a tribal chieftain rejecting a marriage proposal from a king)."