Most Ancient Aryan Society

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

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adjunct of religion was giving social sanctity to all such acts. It was the chief weapon in assigning divine role to the new master. They, thus, kept the multitude of humanity strongly bound to the new masters. The tribal collective with its social cohesiveness continued. The Yajnic form of production continued. The serfs, the slaves, the common merchants and such others that formed the new social class were exploited for the benefit of the new rulers. The state .assumes the role of the Brahma or Basileia. The aristocratic and the oligarchic class assumes the role of the Devas and Gana. The common people to be exploited in the new society had increased due to the additions of the banquished adversaries. They were the general Gana people. The foreign lands and people had to be looted and exploited for the benefit of the new ruling class, a minor share going to the common masses. The tribal social way with all its essential ingredients continued in the new form of the Aryan Tribal Society that it was assuming Circa 300 B.C. or near about. The Grecian tribal poly-archonies formed monoarchony or monarchy under one archon-chief. Ganarajya in Bharata gave way to Ek-rajya. Ek-rāt or Samrat became Bhupati and Adhipati as the sole sovereign power.
References
1. L. H. Morgan; Op. Cit.; Pages 292-293.
2. G. R. Sharma ; Excavations at Kausāmbi; 1960; Page 15.
3. M. Pallottino; The Etruscans; 1956; Pages 71, 132-135; 151-152; 170-171.
4. H. G. Wells; Outline of History; 1931; Page 417.
5. L. Woolley; Excavations at Ur; 1955; Page 195
Esidore Epstein maintains in his book 'Judaism' Page 11 that the event took place Circa 1900 B. C. on the authority of Woolley's Book 'Ur of the Chaldees' which he later revised in this book.
6. P. T. Raju; Religion and Spiritual Values in Indian Thought; A. B. O. R. I.; Vol. XL; 1959; Page 304,