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women in such a nomadic, war-mongering, barbaric society. seeking pastures new cannot but be insignificant. Their only function is to constantly work as a child manufacturing factory. Aryans always cherished sons, never daughters. Ganapatis and Devas produced sons. Zeus had the right to produce sons on all women. Indra also enjoyed the same right. Abundance of sons is constantly prayed for in Rgveda, alongwith cattle and land, but no desire for daughters is expressed. The desire for sons is natural in a patriarchal organisation of society. 68 The Greekāryans also revered the male side of life. Their society was also patriarchal.69 Women, like other members, are subservient to the patriarch. Ganapati is the earliest patriarch.
The crystallisation of this state of Aryan social affairs is found in the Aryan word ‘Manuş'. It may be traced to
.. vman, in the sense of 'to think, believe, Significance of
the Word imagine, suppose, conjecture, appear as, pass •Manuş"
ut for.709 Manu is he who is supposed or imagined to exist. In earlier times, the word Manu stood for the whole manhood, not including womanhood. Then it came to, in later times, signify the representative Man, the father of man in the sense of a real individual.72 Words Manuşa, Manuşya, Mānava, Mānuşa, and other derivatives of the word 'Manus' invariably mean Mankind, not including womankind." The partiarchal Aryan Society having promiscuous social state had no interest in knowing as to who is the son of whom. He belonged to the whole society (Gaña) as an inseparable part of it, not independent of it. Who placed the seed and who gave birth was of no significance to the ancient Aryan Society.
These social institutions of the undivided Aryans pursued tribal activities which were known as Yajñas to the
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