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CHAPTER II
UTTARAKURU-THE ARYAN CRADLE-LAND
1. NATURE OF ĀRYOLOGY We call the mother of Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Sanskrit and other allied languages Aryan. They were called Indo The Basic European because these languages were spoken Āryan Language in the continent of Europe and the subcontinent of India. Some Scholars substituted the word Germanic to represent the European Languages and called it Indo-Germanic. Maxmuller gave this language its present name—the Aryan Language. He maintains that the Aryan in scientific language means nothing but language and is utterly inapplicable to race. He chose this word from Rgveda, the oldest extant Aryan literature. But this word does not occur earliest in Rgveda. The word 'Arya' was known to the Harri people in Western Asia long before the Vedic Aryans finally occupied Bhārata and redacted Rgveda in the present form.
The undivided people who spoke the Aryan language were nomads. They lived in collectives. They were hard
mountainous people. They were mainly Āryan Race
pastoral people. The guiding principle of their economy was usurpation and exploitation. They were very active, courageous and martial people. Their chief domesticated cattle in war and peace was horse. They developed patriarchal system. They derived their beliefs from the phenomena of Nature. Their way revolved round unhampered material well-being and prosperity.
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