The Scythians, the racial origins of Gotama Buddha, and racial distinctions in Buddhist sutta
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The most famous Sakya was the Buddha, a member of the ruling Gotama (Pali: Gotama) clan of Sakya (Scythians), who is also known as “Sakyamuni” (Pali: Sakyamuni, “sage of the Sakya/Scythian [peoples]”). [DN 1.90-95] The Scythians are described by Ambattha as “fierce, rough spoken, violent, wanderers (incorrectly translated as menials in some translations). They do not respect Brahmins, nor pay homage to them.” Upon visiting Kapilavatthu, hometown of the Scythians, (Shakya), Ambattha explains them as those who “sat upon high seats in meeting halls, engaging in laughing, rough playing, poking each other with fists and fingers and paid no regard to (Ambattha).” In referring to Gotama the “Scythian-sage” (Sakyamuni), he: [DN 3.144] “has blue eyes”. In further at [DN 3.81] the true Brahmins are “fair skinned, whereas the others (inferiors) are dark-skinned”.
Ambattha is asked by Gotama “What is your clan (peoples)?”, upon which Ambattha responds that he is a Kanhayan, which translates as a “Black-person” [DN 1.90-95], but is meant a Dravidian, or a dark-skinned Tamil. Dravidian people, Dravidian race or Dravidians are terms that are some times given to those dark races, the Tamils, in being dark and inferior, as contrasted with the fair Scythians, or Indo-Europeans of the North and especially along the base of the Himalayan mountains, such as the home of Gotamas peoples, the Shakya (Scythians). The average North Indian (esp. Punjab, etc.) is fairer than the average Tamil Brahmin as well as the non-Brahmin. If there is such a thing as an Aryan race that is lighter-skinned within the Indian population, it is far more concentrated in the North.
Gotama, in continuing his talk with Ambattha, explains that King Okkaka of the Aryans, the Scythians, made their home at the base of the Himalayas beside a lotus-pond where there was a large grove of teak trees, and for fear of “contaminating their race (by breeding with the dark-skinned inferiors), would breed with their own sisters.”[DN 2.92].
In further, in downgrading the nature of Ambattha, he goes on to say that “King Okkaka had a slave-girl named Disa (whom he had sex with), which had given birth to a black (mixed) child, (a tanha baby, black child). The black baby when born cried out: ‘wash me mother!! Wash me mother!! Get this dirt (dark-skin) off of me!!” [DN 2.93].
Gotama continues: “Because, Ambattha, just as people in these days use the term Demon (pisaca) as a term of insult and abuse, so too in those old days they said ‘Black (tanha). And they said of that baby when he was born ‘behold, a Black, a Demon!!’ And this is how, Ambattha, in former days the Scythians (Sakya) were the masters, and your peoples are descendents of (half-breeds) the children of slave girls (who were impregnated by superior Aryans/Scythians)” [DN 2.93].
Further on the Scythians (Sakya, Gotamas peoples), the Aryans
Ptolemy says that the Scythian tribes living in the Hindukush ranges were only at the southern fringe of the Scythian world. By this definition, the Parama Kambojas tribe who lived in the far off Transoxiana territory as distant as the Fargana and Zeravshan valleys were also Scythians. Some researchers have argued that both the Celtic and Germanic people came from an area southeast of the Black Sea and migrated westward to the coast of Europe, starting with the reign of the Persian king Cyrus the Great when they declined to help him in his conquest of the Babylonian empire. Herodotus (440 BC) mentions a division of Persians known as Germanioi (Hist. 1.125). The adherents of the Saka theory point out that the burial customs of the Scythians and the Vikings show certain similarities. Furthermore, the Old English chroniclers write that when the Saxons invaded England ca. 400 AD together with the Angli, they “sent back to Scythia for reinforcements”. The implication is that the Saxons considered themselves to be Scythians — the name having traveled with them even though they were far away from the region the Greeks had labelled “Scythia”. However, the chroniclers have most probably taken over the name Scythia and its somewhat imprecise usage from the Latin literature; Scythia was identified with Sweden because of a similarity of the two names (due to the fact that Scythia was pronounced [sitia] in Medieval Latin).
According to some traditions, the Saka race, with an affiliated tribe under a different name, migrated to the area of the Baltic Sea, and supposedly gave rise to the Saxon tribe in the area of present day Germany. Nevertheless, many Germans believe that there was a connection between people in Central Asia and their own ancestors who were migrants from the East. Paul Pezon supports this theory, claiming that the Saka Scythians and the seemingly related Cimmerians were ultimately ancestors to the Celts and Germans, and that the Germans fled the Baltic area when it was flooded by the rising sea level after the Ice age. He believes that the German tribe Cimbri have descended from a branch of the Cimmerians. There is a distant relationship between the Iranic Saka and the Germanic people due to the fact that both speak Indo-European languages. Their common forefathers, or better: the people speaking the proto-language which gave rise to Germanic and Iranian probably lived somewhere near the Black Sea.
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