Prabhupāda: The Europeans and Americans, they belong to Āryan family. They have lost their Vedic culture. Now it is being revived again.
Revatīnandana: They came from those renegade kings that ran away from Paraśurāma?
Prabhupāda: Yes. There are so many reasons.
Revatīnandana: Is it also true that the Scandinavians come from . . . kaṁsa-nisūdana was telling me that the Scandinavians . . . the name Scandinavia came from Skandha, god of war, and that these people were driven out of India by the Hindu society. They were worshipers of Skandha, and they took shelter in northern Europe?
Prabhupāda: Maybe. Actually Āryan civilization was Central Asia. Some of them went towards India and some of them went towards Europe. Indo-European stock, that is called.
Revatīnandana: Central Asia.
Prabhupāda: Central Asia. Caucasian. Kaśyapa . . . Kaśyapa Muni's place.
Haṁsadūta: How come they're so white?
Prabhupāda: The Āryans are white. But here, this side, due to climatic influence, they are a little tanned. Indians are tan, but they are not black. But Āryans are all white. And the non-Āryans, they are called black. Yes.
Devotee: They use the term "Caucasian" to designate those persons who . . .
Prabhupāda: Not only Europeans. The Kashmir side of this Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Punjab, they are all white.
Devotee: Caucasaus Mountains is near Afghanistan.
Prabhupāda: Yes. All white. In Punjab, you'll find, they are as white as Europeans. Oh, yes. Kashmir.