In 534 AD King Lalitaditya who ruled INDIA from south to north. First he motivated the farmers of the state Jammu-Kashmir to start farming of Saffron Kesar Indian word of Saffron. It has the reference in one of the oldest saga Rajtarangini.

The cast of The Thief of Baghdad - 1978 includes: Yashaw Adem as Man in Snake Kabir Bedi as Prince Taj Michael Chesden as Meat Seller Geoffrey Cheshire as Herald Arnold Diamond as Minister Ahmed El Shenawi as Kanishka Daniel Emilfork as Genie Frank Finlay as Abu Bakar Ian Holm as The Gatekeeper Ahmed Khalil as Melon Seller George Little as Man in Audience Raymond Llewellyn as Baghdad Attendant Kevork Malikyan as Common Man Roddy McDowall as Hasan Bruce Montague as Police Chief Robert Rietty as Captain of the Guard Marina Sirtis as Harem Girl Terence Stamp as Wazir Jaudur Kenji Tanaki as Lalitaditya Pavla Ustinov as Princess Yasmine Peter Ustinov as The Caliph Gabor Vernon as Courtier Marina Vlady as Perizadah Vincent Wong as Interpreter

In Bengal:

In the time of Lakhsman Sen, he had to ban the then brambhins-Chatterjee, Banerjee, Bhattacharjee due to their ill tendency to take "Utkoch" from people for rising them from lower caste to higher caste. Then few brambhins came from Mithila with some servant-Ghosh, Bose, Mitra & Dutta. Those servants r Kayastha and they r belonging to Sudra as per Manu.