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Lord-Mahavira
communal sex-relationship between man and woman during their nomadic semi-barbarous state continuing up to 1150 B.C., secondly unlicensed free sex-relationship after they adopted the settled patriarchal family state till Circa 750 B.C., and thirdly sex-freedom under regulated family State till Circa 600 B.C.
When the Aryans and their sụccessors, the Aryo-Europeans, the Aryo-Asians, the Aryo Hittites, the Aryo-Iranians and the Aryo-Brahms, were in the nomadic state; they developed the patriarchal system as the son was of greater importance to daughter for winning wars and subjugating adversaries. The Aryan people from the very beginning had prejudices against the womanhood. The best utility of the woman was to produce children and specially sons to strengthen their physical might. Vedic people always cherished the birth of a son and that was a great occasion for joy and festivity. They deprecated the birth of a daughter4.
The Aryans in their earlier stages were organised in tribal collectives. They had a collective system of production which they called Yajna. Idea of relationship like father, mother, son, daughter etc. was absent and men and women had free sexual intercourse with one another in the presence of all. They took part in mass sexual intercourse in the presence of fire, invigorated by the quaffing of plenty of Soma juice or liquor. Yajna seems to have meant in these remote times an orgy of promiscuous sexual intercourse by the side of the alter itself. Yajna means procreation, without any relationship of father and mother, in context of social sex-relationship.
They usually organised popular festivities called Samana. Yaska explains it as an epithet of Yosa (CT) in the sense of 'Unanimous." He gives 2191 the meaning of a young woman tracing it to you to mix' literally “mixing with a male”.?The sense here clearly is that all males and females met there together with one mind, with unanimity. There was no distinction of father and daughter, mother and son, brother and sister but there was only one distinction of man and woman but both having unanimity of plan and purpose. But Yaska appears to be wrong in taking the principal word as 'Samana'. This may as well be 'Samana'. This fits in well with the historical context. It may be that during the 7th