Book Title: Most Ancient Aryan Society
Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan
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( 92 ) Ware. This ware may be placed between 1500-600 B. C. At Hastinapur, this ware is placed between 1100-800 B. C'.
These violent invaders in search of abundant wealth and prosperity wielded very fierce and efficient weapons in their
Fire-The wars against the indigenous people. But the Most efficient best of their military weapon was Agni Āryan Weapon (Fire). They were very efficient scientists in organising fire brigades in their military system. The 'throneroom'; may be assembly Hall, in the palace at Knossos in Crete was swept by fire which destroyed the palace. It was destroyed by fire by the Mycenaean invaders who were hybrid people composed of Hellenes and pre-Hellenes, the former preponderating. The centres of the Mycenaean power, in turn, were also looted and destroyed. At Mycenae, all the buildings with the citadel were plundered and fired. These invasions of the Achaeans and the Dorians were very violent. The burnt layer at Eutresis is followed by the Minyan ware which covered most parts of peninsular Greece during the course of the Middle Bronze Age. In the last period of the Middle Bronze Age, the House of Tiles at Lerna was burnto. The city of Troy was also burnt. These inhuman barbarian war-lords resorted to raiding, arson and pillaging in North Baluchistan. There is evidence of burning at the end of the Rana Ghundaii IIIc phase. The last phase of Zhob ware settlement was burnt down. Its tell is still called Sohr Damb, the Red Mound, from its fire-reddened soil. At Dabarkot the upper 6 feet of the tell showed no less than four thick ash layers, implying repeated destructive conflagrations of the later settlements. One of the later settlements at this site was that of Harappa folk". This was the region of Vștras, Dāsas and Daśyus. They met a cruel, gruesome and inhuman end at the hands of the invading greyware people. Agni was the most supreme and best of Gaņap atis
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