Book Title: Most Ancient Aryan Society
Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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________________ ( 132 ) 6. The Āryans were the people of the mountains. The hot plains could not be a suitable region for their origin. They love the cold climate and derided the hot one. A part of their original habitat was covered with vast thick forests where mass fires occasionally existed. 7. The Aryans belonged to a human race, the fairest and the tallest. Their adversaries were. dark-complexioned and short-statured. -.8. The Aryans did not have words for several plants, animals and other objects when they were first found in Greece and Bhārata. They had previously never come --across with them. Aryans' newer contacts with them point to their foreign origin. 9. The common mythological legends of the Greekāryans and the Brahmāryans look to a region in the North beyond the Caspian Sea which they remember as a paradise and a past Home. 10. Ancient geography locates a real country beyond the peaks of the Pamir mountain where every Aryan would like to reside and enjoy. That is the land of Uttarakuru, remembered as a real country till fourth century A. D. This region may be located to the South of Circumpolar region and to the North of Caspian and Aral seas. It covers the northern parts of the mountainous Eurasian Steppes and the Southern parts of the thick Siberian forests, exteriding upto the eastern Sea-Coast. This region was known to the ancients as Uttara kuru. Uttara kuru,: thus, ' appears to be the Aryan Cradle-land, Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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