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( 195 ) The tribal Greekāryan society had promiscuous sexrelationship. There was no marriage as such. Nobody
could assert that he is the son of such Borrowing of
Family and and such person. Paternity of children is Marriage System
unknown to the institution of gens and can never be deterimined. But this animal Dharma soon came to be regarded as reprehensible and abhorrent. Their new hosts were superior to them in human Dharma. This ancient Dharma began to disintegrate in Greece, as also in Bhārata. Monogamy was practised in the pre-Aryan times in the region and polygamy, even, was strictly prohibited. The Aryans in Greece, West Asia and Bhārata began to abandon this animal Dharma. Monogamy presupposes the existence of another family. It decides paternity, impossible in gens. This region did not know the punaluan system of marriage. Marriage between brother and sister born together (the Yugalics of the ancient hoary past) had long gone obsolete. When the Āryan families became smaller, they had to find other families for boys and girls to marry. As the system of family was patriarchal; it was considered useful to retain the orphan daughters and heiresses in the family to check the going out of the family property that they were allowed to marry in the gens. The adoption of the family system and the institution of marriage outside the family were also borrowed by the Aryans from the pre-existing social system.
The Greekāryans brought the tribal system of society when they poured down upon Greece south of the Danube.
They had no experience of political society And of Private property and based on private property and territoriality in
the sixth century B. C. The local elective republics pre-existing in Greece, Egypt, West Asia and Bhārata were the independent constiuents of a widespread
Succession
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