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

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________________ ( 314 ) logy. Indology would mean the science and culture of the Aryan Bhārata after the Brahmāryan conquest. There is no word to indicate the pre-Aryan ancient culture and civilization of Bhārata. Rgveda tells us that the people of Bhārata whom the Brahmāryans annihilated were known as Bhāratas. The word Bhāratalogy, hence, has been coined to indicate the science of the pre-Aryan ancient culture and civilization of Bhārata. 4. MORPHOMOTHEISM Anthropomorphism means giving human shape to the elements of Nature. But the original life of the most ancient undivided Aryans points towards quite an opposite phenomenon. They copied nature. Their leaders assumed to themselves the names of the elements of nature believing that they would thus imbibe in themselves the energies and forces possessed by those elements of nature. The phenomena of nature were not given humanity, but the humanity or their leaders were given the names of the phenomena of Nature. This is the Doctrine of Morphomotheism. 5. HAVISM Havism means the art of calling. It was exercised to call the leaders of the society. It was also exercised to call the energies and forces of the elements of Nature with the supposed belief that they would really come to the caller. 6. CHHANDOPATHY Hava scientifically organised is chhanda. Word, Chhanda to the Aryans, meant Thing. Chhañda was considered the inherent force of the word. Name was considered the cover of reality, Chhanda means 'cover', that which disguised reality. The reality was supposed to be achieved Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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