Most Ancient Aryan Society

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

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hereby given, means any young women inclined to have sexual intercourse with any male of the society. Sāyaṇa and Wilson reflect the notions of their age; they do not faithfully interpret the age in which these institutions existed. It may not be their fault as they lacked the value of chronological history.
came one.
In this collective Samanic festivity, all the members went into the Gana chamber around the Gaņa fire glowing with ghee and embraced each other as riverine water embraced the fields and ghee embraced the fire1. They all beThese Gaṇa-members were the primitive chariotsdesiring Aryans. Sāyaṇa takes the word 'Samana' as a noun in the sense of Yajña. Samana and its best and the highest festival Puruşamedha was only a social form of Yajña, highlighting felicitous Ganic social activity just to be discussed. Sāyaṇa concedes Samanic activity to be a Yajnic activity. The Ganic Chamber had only one door to the East and had walls on all the other three sides. When all the Gana members collected together for marrymaking in the Samana; Soma reached them in abundance calling aloud at the Samana like a ministrant priest. All the members taking part in Samana felicities profusely drank, danced and made loud and shouting voices. Sāyaṇa, as usual, here also translates the word Samana as YajñaR. Gana-people are victorious in battle under the leadership of Ganapati Indra. The whole tribal collective lauds his heroic conquest. There is communal festivity. Indra, alongwith other Gana-members is Soma-drunk. He, alongwith his Gaṇa-members, is vary happy on receiving the vast spoils of war which could very well fill a well. That was an event of great Ganic festivity. Sāyaṇa, in this Rc also, translate the word 'Samana' as a noun in the sense of battle, not in the sense of Yajna." It shows that communal