Most Ancient Aryan Society

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

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from the East. By origin, it is not suggested that the one stock issued forth of the other. It simply means that the Mediterranean stock that afterwards became widespread and influential in a very wide area was first moved into action by the powerful migrations of the proto-Austroloids. The robust and adventurous Sea-faring Panis from Bhārata gave North Africa, Asia Minor, Greece and the adjoining countries a moving spirit that the whole of the Mediterranean region began throbbing with life and activities. people, shaped by the natural environments of the Mediterranean, came to their own and began their life as pioneers of culture and civilization. It is only in this sense that the origin of the Mediterranean is traced to the people inhabiting the Punt-land. Panis, the historical adventurers on the foreign vast seas, were the original founders of the Mediterranean race of history. The Punt-land or Pani-land, as shown supra, may be located in Bharata. Thus we find that the basic content of the culture-region from Greece to Bharata, including Egypt and Western Asia, appears to be proto-Austroloid. The Mediterranean race is later in age to the proto-Australoid race. This region is the home of the two racial stocks; dark-skinned, smaller in stature and longheaded known as the proto-Austroloid and the Mediterranean.
The white-complexioned, very fair coloured, brachycephalic Aryan people could not originate in these regions. White people could emanate only in colder Origin of Ārya-Varna climates of mountaineous regions. People inhabiting the Himalayas and Pamir ranges are not known for their white colour. The people beyond the Caucasus and the Pamirs are found to be white-complexioned and brachycephalic. The fair coloured Aryans belong to the Uraloid stock. The hardy people of the mountains possess a taller stature than the people of the plains. Aryans had