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CHAPTER VII
BRAHMA-THE ĀRYAN UNIVERSAL
TRIBAL SOCIETY 1. INSTITUTION OF BRAHMA The invasion and conquest of the highly developed, greatly cultured and spiritually civilized people from Greece
to Bhārata by the barbarous nomadic Aryans śramanicMaterialistic started the ancient process whereafter the Contacts
materialist north has swept down violently upon the settled and peaceful south. The Aryans poured down upon the Minoans, the Mesopotamians and the Bhāratīyans. These Aryans possessed strong physiques, a hearty appetite in both solids and liquids, a ready brutality, a skill and courage in war. They fought with bows and arrows, led by armoured warriors in chariots, who wielded battle-axes and hurled spears. They wanted land and spasture for their cattle; their word for war said nothing about national honour, but simply meant 'a desire for more cows'. Egypt, west Asia and the Mediterranean people had earlier contacts with the Materialists of the Desert while Bhārata remained safe for long even after the Āryan occupation. The peaceful society of Greece, Egypt and West Asia began to founder earlier under their barbaric pressures. Bhārata enjoyed the continuity of her Śramanic Society till its first Aryan contacts in the fourteenth century B. C. It is for this reason that while the Mesopotamians and the Egyptians took to military life earlier, we find the absence of defences and military preparations for a pretty long times, and it is only very late that defensive citadels at Harappa and Mohenjodaro’ were raised. But they were too weak for the
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