Most Ancient Aryan Society

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

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( 263 ) and the person or thing denoninated by it is not a mere arbitrary and ideal association, but a real and substantial bond. He gives appalling instances of Human Sacrifices where the decaying man-god or King was sacrificed and eaten so that his soul may be transferred to his vigorous successor. Kings were believed to possess magical powers by virtue of which they could fertilise earth and confer other benefits on their subjects. This view was shared by the ancestors of the Aryans from Ireland to India. Āryans roamed the wide steppes of Russia or in central Asia with their flocks and herds, they may have worshipped the god of the blue sky or cloudy firmament and the flashing thunderbolt.80 But Frazer missed the historical event the primitive Āryan philosopher gave the names of the phenomena of Nature to the leaders of humanity to possess superhuman energy and power which later on gave birth to the spurious science and bastard art of Magic.
Chhandopathy, in its original stages, remained related to its parent, the Yajña, the economic and social activities of the primitive Aryans. The stimulus provided by it accelerated their economic and social growth. Āryans did not know the spiritual forces of penance, contemplation and meditation. They readily accepted the material forces of their outward belief in Chhandopathy. When this art got deep-rooted amongst them and began to be considered an efficacious method ; its scope was extended from the terrestrial domain to the ethereal domain. It came to be believed that forces of nature could be coerced to yield material benefits. Gaņa leaders were intellectually advanced to the common masses and by keen observation and repeated experience had known the working of certain phenomena of Nature. Rain was the prime necessity of the savage Aryans. Ganapati had assumed the role of the guide of the Gaña and