Most Ancient Aryan Society

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

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APPENDIX I
EXPLANATION OF SOME WORDS
1. ARYA The word "Arya" has not been used in the sense of language or race. It has been used in the sense of way. The people following this particular way are known as Aryans. The people following the Aryan way in different regions are designated by that particular name such as Europāryans, Asiāryans, Irānāryans and Greekāryans. The Āryan people that advanced from Iran to Bhārata in the east gave the region of their conquest the name of Brahmāvarta. They constituted the Brahma collective hence they are called Brahmāryans. The words Indo-European, Indo-Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Indo-Aryan are essentially linguistic concepts.
2. ŚRAMAŅA Word śrama means effort of the spirit ; the inner effortivity. Suffix "Ņa" conveys the sense of "right". Śramaņa means right inner-effortivity or a person following the way of right inner-effortivity. Śramaņism is the ideology of the Śramaņic way. Sramaņalogy means the science of the Śramaņic way.
3. BHĀRATALOGY Though "Egypt" is a modern word, Egyptology has been accepted by the scholars to mean the science of culture and civilization of ancient Egypt. The science of the preAryan culture and civilization of Greece is known by the name of AEGEOLOGY. The science of the ancient culture and civilization of Iraq is known by the name of Sumero