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onslaughts of the Aryan military might. The Aryan tribal collectives had attained their highest power when they poured down upon Greece, West Asia and Bhārata.
We have earlier noticed that the Aryan Institutions and beliefs met with disaster in West Asia. The Gramanic Separation Way of the Asuras had conquered the materiof Brahmas alistic way of the Aryans. The main body of the Aryans in Iran adopted the Asura Way. Gaņapatis Varuna and Mitra, alongwith their followers, had become largely influenced by the Asura Way. They later came to be known as Asura-gods. But a section of the Irānāryans could not happily digest this defeat. They organised themselves under the commandership of ferocious, violent Indra. These Irānāryans possessed the institutions of Gaña, Ganapati and Yajña, inherited from their forefathers. It was against the horrors of social Yajñas, with cruel animal sacrifices that Zarthusthra of Iran, later, like Mahāvīra and Buddha in Bhārata and Orpheus in Greece, organised opposition. The Indra led Aryans could not make peace with the superior Asura influences on their compatriots. They still exalted violence and exploitation for their further victories. The disintegration of the materialistic Aryan power under the force of the superior original spiritual culture caused a schism in the undivided Irānāryan Society. The schism was, as held by some scholars, not the result of differences in beliefs; that a section believed in Naturegods and the other in Abstract Deities. The ideological differences do not lead people to military invasions of foreign lands. The historical forces in West Asia caused the Schism in the Irānāryan Society, Varuna-led Irānāryans remained behind in West Asia. The more ferocious, the more violent, the more exploitative and the more military-minded section reorganised and led by Indra, retaining the ancient insti
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