Most Ancient Aryan Society

Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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vicinity of a region where very severe life-prohibiting cold climate prevailed and which also occasionally visited the inhabited cold region. The Irānāryan myth of the visit of Angra Mainyu to Airyana Vaejo and the creation of a very severe cold climate may satisfactorily be explained in this light. The Airyana Vaejo or the orginal Aryan habitat was a tolerably cold region frequented by severe cold winds and gales. The area of the Sapta Sindhu plains, or the area to the north beyond the Himalayas around the Pamir range does not satisfy these conditions. Northern parts of central Asia beyond the Pamir range and the southern parts of the very cold circumpolar regions satisfy thase conditions.
Angiras is the first and the greatest Aryan Ganapati. He is the father as well as the son of Agni. He separated the burn
e ing individual charcoal from the Mass fire. Invention of Agni From Mass When the first Angārā was born, it greatly Fires
accelerated the Aryan economy and revolutionised their way of living. Ķgveda makes numerous references to such mass fires. The woods and trees are called the hairs of the earth. Agni, the kind kinsman of the water, consumes the forest and when excited by the wind, traverses the woods and shears the hairs of the earth. Imperishable Agni blazes amidst consuming forests. Agni is consumer of many forests, as an animal is of fodder. Undivided Aryans valued forests and fodder alike; fodder for feeding their cattle and forests to keep their cattle and themselves warm and protected. The Aryans considered Agni, the asylum of all and Agni appeared to them very beatiful when generated in woods. The destroying energy of Agni is like the prowes of a hero. Agni, irresistable and fearful, consumes the forests. Agni, rapid as a horse, is the consumer of the forests and is spontaneously known among the Devas, the Aryan leaders. Agni fanned by the wind consumed the forests. These refe