Most Ancient Aryan Society

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

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foremost in the Brahma is its dictator. The Brahma is quickening whose head is the conquering Purohita." Griffith translates the word Purohita as President who is foremost just like the Ganapati or the tribal Chief.
The Bhārtīyana adversaries assailed the Brahmāryans from all the points. They wronged their Brahma. Agni is commanded to trouble them and turn them away. The Brahmāryan magician smites them backward. Here the trouble is earthly. The omnipotent, omniscient and all pervading neuter Brahma is not affected by the onslaughts of those who do not believe him. The 'prayer' also is not affected by the misdeeds of the Asuras. It is the physical Brahma, the tribal institution, that is so adversely affected. The evil has to be warded off to keep the purity and strength of the tribal collective in tact.
Yajurveda represents ritualisation par excellence of the Brahmāryan tribal institutions. The gloss is much more Brahma in Sukla here. Still very deep down; we have
Yajurveda gleanings of the material aspects of the Aryan institutions. Agni is Brahma and Guide of Yajña. He is free-giver. His real aid is sought®. Here the leader is equated with the society he leads. He as leader renders aid in tribal (Yajāic) activities of the society (Brahma). Brahma is the Brahmāryan tribal organisation to Yajurveda also. The first overlord of Brahma is Bịahaspati. Indra and Agni drive away Brahmāryan foes to every side. The subordinate Devas upraise them, cause depression of their foes and increase the material prosperity of the Brahmall. The annihilation of foes by brutal methods and the increase of the material prosperity by exploitative methods can not be the functions of Brahma, the Highest Principle, or Brahma, the Prayer. That makes both of them ridiculous.