“…hadst pleasure in their lauds, O Indra golden-haired."
- [Rig Veda 10]
" [Agni] With flame for hair: to him we seek."
- [Rig Veda 3]
" Men call on thee whose hair is flame [Agni], to be the bearer of their gifts."
- [Rig Veda 1]
" O Surya with the golden-haired , ascend for us day after day." - [Rig Veda 10]
"To him , Rudra the strong , great , fair-complexioned I utter forth a mighty hymn of praises".
- [Rig Veda 2]
"To her ...to this golden-locked Nirriti (goddess of misfortune), I have rendered obeisance." - [Adharva Veda]
"Indra , the Iron One with yellow beard and yellow hair."
- [Rig Veda 10]
"with tawny hair, Savitr hath raised before"
- [Yajur Veda 4]
"Savitar, golden-haired , hath lifted eastward"
- [Yajur Veda 4]
"HE [Agni] in midair's expanse hath golden tresses"
- [Rig Veda 1]
"For new prosperity we seek to Agni, him whose course is splendid, gold-haired, excellently bright"
- [Rig Veda 3]
"By slaying the Dasyus (natives), he [Indra] protected the Aryan color"
- [Rig Veda 3]
"Indra protected in battle the Aryan worshipper, he subdued the lawless for Manu (Noah) , he conquered the black skin."
- [Rigveda, Book 1, Indra 130.8 (I.CXXX.8)]
"the thunderer who bestowed on his white friends the fields, bestowed the sun, bestowed the waters."
- [Rigveda, Book 1, Indra 100.18 (I.C.18)
"Thou to the son of Vidathin, Rjisvan, Thou smotest down the swarthy fifty thousand, and rentest forts as age consumes a garment."
- [Rig Veda , Indra - 4.16.13]
"Active and bright have they come forth, impetuous in speed like bulls, driving the black skin far away."
- [Rig veda , Soma Pavamana - 9.41.1]
“The sacrificer poured out thanks to his god for scattering the slave bands of black descent", and for stamping out "the vile Dasyan colour."
- [ Rig Veda . II.20.7, II.12.4 ]
"O'er Sire and Mother they have roared in unison bright with the verse of praise, burning up riteless men, Blowing away with supernatural might from earth and from the heavens the swarthy skin which Indra hates."
- [Rig Veda , Soma Pavamana - 9.73.5]
" Indra in battles help his Aryan worshipper, he who hath hundred helps at hand in every fray, in frays that win the light of heaven. Plaguing the lawless he gave up to Manu's seed the dusky skin; Blazing, 'twere, he burns each covetous man away, he burns, the tyrannous away."
- [Rig Veda , Book 1]
"Black skin is impious" (Dasam varnam adharam)
- [ Rigveda, Book 2, Indra 12.4 (2.XXII.4) [ Muir Pt.I, p.43, II, p.284, 323 etc.]
"the vile Dasyan (native) colour."
- [Rigveda, Book 2, Indra 20.7, 12.4 (2.XX.7, 2.XII.4)
“ the black skin, the hated of Indra"
- [Rigveda, Book 9, Soma Pavamana .IX.73.5 ]
"Thou, Indra, art the destroyer of all the cities, the slayer of the Dasyus , the prosperer of man, the lord of the sky."
- [Rigveda, Book 8, Indra 87.6 (8.LXXXVII.6) [ Muir I.175 ]