Most Ancient Aryan Society

SR No.: 001639
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 376
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Culture, History, & Geography
File Size: 18 MB

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convincingly proves that the institution of Rājan was an Asura political institution. Jana, Parişada and Rājan seem to be the hierarchy of Asura political institutions in Bhārata before the alien Brahmāryan invasions.
Bhārata was since ages enjoying a political system of Jana-republics in her self-sufficient and self-organised villages
and towns. These territorial republics were No Central Political
local. There was no central authority to Authority
keep them in tact and harmony. They readily confederated together during periods of great exigencies. Brahmāryan , military onslaughts provided such a national emergency and Ten-Republics Confederacy was the result. The political mechanism had some other powerful adjunct which reduced the use for violence to the minimum. Central authority is needed only for the use of the methods of violence to keep the society in tact. Egypt also enjoyed such dispersed local republics till the Twelfth Dynasty. But confusion arose and the republics did not work in harmony. The kings of the Twelfth Dynasty restored centralised Government.56 The powerful adjunct that kept such a vast society in tact with minimum force must have been a very powerful one going to the very root of the basic way of life of the people. Unless the basic principles and convictions are voluntarily accepted by the people at large as guiding forces in their daily lives; the need of violence can not be ruled out. The basic way of the people of the region must have been of a very deep and permanent character.
References 1. Mopier Williams ; Sanskrit-English Dictionary ; 1956 ; Page 410. 2. Rgveda 1.8.6.1; 1.2 3.2.8.; 2.3.1.4 ; 5.5.9.6; 5.6.8.2; 6.4.6.1 ;
7.2.3.6-8; 7.3.22.5; 8.1.4.12 ; 8.1.5.33; 8.1.5.39; 3. Rgveda 1.7.5.5; 1.8.2.12 ; 1.9.7.3-6 ; 1.11.2.1 ; 121.1.12 ; 1.23.9.8;
2.2.9.2; 3.4.8.2; 3.5.6.1; 6.6.6.3; 8.3.7.14 ; 1.6.2.14; 1.13.2.3-4 ; 1,23.13.1; 1.24.12.4 ; 4.1.9.5; 5.1.2.6 ; 5.2.2.2 ;