Most Ancient Aryan Society

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

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( 72 ) penance. He abstained from intoxicating drinks and was a celibate. He hated war and violence and instead of offering up in sacrifice animals or human beings, he offered bread, roses, other flowers, perfumes and incense. The culture-hero Quatzalcoatl is represented in art sitting in a meditative mood in Padmāsana posture with eyes closed having two hooded horns“. The horn emblem was taken to America by the Paņis who took the same to Sumer, Egypt and Crete. They were the group of people who first arrived on the continent, later to be known as America, driven by that mighty current that set out from India towards the East. The figure of the representative Paņi depicts a robust trader, standing erect, with folded hands having Rajasthani features and whose head is adorned with a Marwari Pugaree (Headdress). May be, Paņis of Rajasthan, having their seat of power at Arbuda (Modern Mount Abu) sailed off to America from some Indus port.
It is difficult to determine the time when this immigration took place. Buddhist immigration may readily be Paņic Immigration ruled out. Even if some figures show BuCirca 2000 B. C. ddhist influence that may be later. Buddhist immigrants started their sojourns after the time of Ashoka and during that age there was neither the supremacy of the Paņis nor of any other member-tribe of tbe Ahi race. They had completely been annihilated by the invading Brahmāryans long ago, by the end of the first and the beginning of the second millennium B. C. Minoan art is more natural than the Egyptian or the Mesopotamian and the American art is still more natural than the Minoan. the impulse from fresh navigation to the unchartered waters could have come only after the Minoan civilization had attained its youth Circa 2000 B. C. I fix the Guatzalcoatl immigration to America Circa 2000 B. C.