Most Ancient Aryan Society

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

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quite differently. The Aryans were experts Gana-An Aggre
e in the art of the domestication of cattle.
Their original home was an ideal home for the rearing, upbringing and the domestication of the cattle ; the cows, the camels, the horses and others. The different Samudāyas had their own different herds of cattle in charge of an individual shepherd headed by a chief-shepherd. These herds of cattle were konwn as Gaņas. The concept Gaņa primarily came in vogue for counting the cattle comprised in a herd. Indra sends for a hundred camels and two hundred cows from the Gaņas of camels and cows for giving. Soma excites the praise of all like a swan entering its own Gaņa.? Gaņa, in its origin, is a collectivity of the cattle where one member is an inseparable part of the whole with no independent individual existence. They lived under the command of the Shepherd who had complete right over their life and death.
The different shepherds alongwith their cattle Gaņas felt the compelling necessity of coalescing together for their Transfer of the
the more efficient economic activities which gave concept to Human rise to the office of the Head-Shepherd. Society; Shepherds The Head-Shepherd of the different Gaņas became Gaņa. had unrivalled power over his different paties
subordinate cattle Ganas and the individual shepherds. In course of time, various head-shepherds of different Gaņas came in contact with each other. Their societies became unwieldy and they occasionally might have come in conflict against each other. The defferent head-shepherds alongwith their subordinate shepherds further felt the efficacy of federating together. The newly formed society became enlarged with numerous cattle. The different berds and their cattle need not now have been counted separately. The fusion was chemical and complete identity was established