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that the word can act for thing. It helps in the movement of thing according to the expressions of the word. He gave some subjective thought to the art of communion. A sweet word brought favourable reactions while a harsh word gave repelling experience in contacts with man and nature. Word had effect on Thing. The barbaric Aryan primitive philosopher, at the second stage of his thinking, commited a fundamental blunder. He identified word with Thing. The The word sheep is Sheep itself. The as the Thing itself. Giving a
word fire is Fire itself. word gives the same effect Name is getting the Thing.
The barbaric Aryan primitive philosopher brought, to his and worlds' misfortune, phenomena of Nature to man with whom he was closely related. He
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saw the vast sky around him and the greatest amongst the Aryan barbarians was given that name. became Dyaus, He experienced the effects of storm, rain and thunder in his daily life and the Aryan barbarian leader alike received the name Parjanya. He had learnt the use of individual fire for his daily use. The fire expert or the the scientist got that name,; Angārā or Agni or Angiras. The Sun gave them warmth, light and life in daily routine; hence the leader possessing these qualities came to be called Sun. Pṛthvi was the mother of all and the elderly ladies giving motherly love to the younger folk came to be known as such. Dawn was the most attractive and pleasuregiving phenomena of Nature. The most beautiful amongst the young Aryans ladies were given the epithet, Uṣās. These various names were given to the different constituents of Aryan community with the belief that the person so called would imbibe the qualities of that aspect of Nature from which the name has been adopted. It gave them great stimulus. The person thinking himself Parjanya acted
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