![]() Aside from these, high-caste/noble individuals are so light-skinned as to be indistinguishable from Europeans.ĭo I have this breakdown right? And how was the blue-skinned iconography established? After all, in the Ramayana for example, Ram is colored blue, but obviously he didn't do any poison-drinking I can recall. Avatars of Vishnu are colored blue, as is Shiva (because of drinking poison, right, hence 'neelkantha'), but occasionally, so are dark-skinned mortals. Junebug> One question that's been bugging me all these years: the elaborate color codes for characters.
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