There’s a story documented in ancient Indian texts and it goes something like this.
Over 3,000 years ago, the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent was settled by Indo-Aryan tribes along the western Ganges plain. Collectively, these lands were known as the Aryavarta (viz. Sanskrit for “Land of the Aryans”). While these tribes all practiced the Vedic religion — which is a precursor to Hinduism as we know it today — they had little else to unite them and often fought each other.
To their south, were the non-Aryan tribes who’d been settled there since before the Aryans came. The ruler of one of these southern kingdoms approached one of the Aryan tribes and — falsely claiming to be a follower of Vedism — extended a hand of friendship. The King was known to have been a tall, strong, handsome and virile warrior who impressed the Aryans greatly with his leadership skills.