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

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________________ ( 206 ) Sumer and Egypt were under the physical occupations of the Materialists of the Desert when Materialists of the Materialists of the Mountains poured the Mountains.upon West Asia Circa 2000 B. C. We find Asiāryans occupying West Asia in Anatolia and Iran. Irānāryans and Hittitāryans respectively reach Anatolia and Iran Circa 2000 B. C. The whole second millennium in Western Asia is a life and death struggle between the forces of arms and the forces of peace and the later, in spite of its physical subjugation, ultimately triumphed. The Hittites consolidated a great power in Asia Minor and the adjoining regions. The Irānāryans trifurcated into the Kassites, the Hurrians and the Brahmas. The Hurrians; Mittanis were a constituent of them; took possession of Northern West Asia. These materialists of the Mountains were the nomadic, barbarian hordes, with horse and chariot who avalanched West Asia. The Hittites persistently followed Hittites their original characteristics marked by infiltration of environmental factors. The reactions of the local culture and civilzaton influenced them earliest. The Hittite King is a primus inter pares a chief with limited powers and controlled by an assembly of nobles which confers his authority on him and can deprive him of it. The preisthood of these people is divided into sacrificers, cantors, sorceres, diviners, attendants or vergeres according to their character and function. The procedure of the sacrifice ( Yajña ), the cardinal feature of the celebration, is governed by a complex casuistic system which the texts faithfully document; food and drink, selected and purified in accordance with detailed and meticulous rules, form the offering. Human sacrifice (Puruşamedha ) was probably prevalent amongst them. They had patriarchal system, Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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