Most Ancient Aryan Society

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

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the Gans. Those were the days of promiscuous sexrelationship. They lived just like other human beings." They led their followers from victory to more and more victories, annihilating their adversaries to augment their common happiness-and prosperity. They were the guide, freind and philosopher of the Gana-members; hence they enjoyed an exalted position. The Gana way of life of the primitive Aryans clearly exhibits the division of society into high and low, the ruler and the ruled, the favoured and the non-favoured with clear class distinctions. but homogeneity in the larger sphere was maintained due to the necessities of the nature of their primitive society; nomadic and barbario... At the base, as usual in history of mankind, is the common man. He is shepherded by a more adventurous and more ingenious leader, the Deva, Ganapati, the Chief Shepherd, exercised sovereign authority over all the devas and his subjects. Gaņas were tribal collectives. Ganapati was the Supreme Tribal Chief.
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This original Aryan society travelled both to Bhārata and Greece. The most ancient Greekäryan society was based on tribal communities. Their villages Gana in Greece are habitations of a genos, i.e. of a clan. Both groups of the Dorian invaders were organised on a tribal basis. The invading Dorians fought in separate tribal regiments and they divided up the land, snatched by force from their adversaries as a booty won by spear, on a tribal basis. The Chief of 'the genos (Ganapati of Rgveda) had the power of life and death over all who belonged to the genos: These genos or village communities are not, as they were in the Asian foreworld, isolated and independent (the Asian village communities were republics as discussed earlier); they are part of a larger community which is called the phyle or tribe. The organisation of 'clan and tribe,