Most Ancient Aryan Society

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

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The startling revolutionary discoveries in the domains of the sciences of Archaeology, Anthropology, Geology and Geography
have far extended the horizons of knowledge of the Sramanic ancient culture and civilization.( Archaeology has
played the most important role. The material relics of the ancient houses, town-planning, the use of material for building houses and social palaces, weights and measures, seals, steattites and other objects of art, paintings and pictures, and by far the most important, the inscriptions, have given us a coherent picture of the ancient cultures and civilizations of the pre-Aryan world in the region comprised by Egypt, Greece (including Crete and the Cyclades ), Western Asia and Bbārata. The upprejudiced and balanced scholars are now veering round' the view that the preĀryan world possessed better, higher and superior cultures and civilizations; in ideology, beliefs, arts, agriculture and industry than the semi-bar baric nomadic Āryans had.The pre-Aryan śramaņic way was in all respects superior to the Āryan Way except that of Military organisation. These discoveries have changed the whole social outlook of the modern thinkers.) The conclusions arrived at on the basis of incomplete and imperfect knowledge are meeting in surmountable challenges from the new discoveries. The whole mass of available evidence has to be reviewed. The whole social outlook bas to be changed. The whole bistory has to be re-interpreted. The humanity has to give birth to a new ideology to meet the challenge of total annihilation of mankind. This Book is a modest attempt towards this purpose.
The first chapter of the Book deals with the pre-Aryan ancient śramaņic Society. The region, in those ancient times, extending
from Bbärata to the Mediterranean was one, alSramanic
most homogeneous cultural region. The present Religion
extent literature almost belongs to the Āryans. No pre-Aryan literature has been permitted to live. The inscriptions hidden beneath the earth alone lived safe and unhurt from the Āryan sword and fire. Whatever we know about the conditions of the pre-Aryan peoples from the literary sources belong to the Āryans. They wrote their accounts in the same way, rather in a