Most Ancient Aryan Society

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

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( 22 ) American culture-hero Quetzalcoatl led the first immigrants belonging to Ahi or Nāga sub-race, from the East to America. He is represented in art sitting in a meditative mood in Padmāsana posture with eyes closed having two hooded horns 18 The elected leaders of society, the temporal supreme beings, considered themselves the sons of their spiritual leaders meaning theraby that they had to conduct themselves according to the commands of the spiritual standards; that their temporal authority was subject to the spiritual authority and as a token . of this pledge, they wore a head-dress with a horn-like object. We get a glaring evidence of corroboration from Rgveda. Vţtra wore a horned headdress in battle against Indra wherein he was slain by Indra,19 Vţtra was the leader of a Jana-republic of Bhāratn, a follower of Muni-Siśnadeva culture and the arch-adversary of Brahmāryans in Bhārata. The Horns of the Bull are the horns of authority. Bull represents Vrşabha in art; the great spiritual leader of Bhārata going to the hoariest antiquity who attained Final Spiritual Attainment. We may, thus, safely conclude that the people of this region accepted Horn as the emblem of supreme power and authority. Horn became, thus, associated with freedom, equality and spiritual supremacy in relation with highest public office of the ancient republics from Egypt to Bhārata; both temporal and spiritual.
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