Samayasara OR Nature of Self

SR No.: 011119
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A Chakravarti
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1950
Total Pages: 406
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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SAMAYASARA
only because of the solid contribution they made towards the culture and the civilisation of the early Aryans and yet these Ikshavakus are hardly known and rarely mentioned in the Rig vedic period. Hence we have to think of the two different schools of culture even among the fold of the Aryans and we are constrained to accept Bloomfield's hypothesis that the Aryans of the Eastern countries in the Gangetic plain mainly dominated by the Kshatriyas constitute an early group of Aryans who migrated into India much earlier than the Aryans of the Kurupanchala whose ritualistic culture was dominated by the priests Rivalry between the two, not merely in culture but in political relations, there must have been; for we have constant references to expeditions of the Kurupanchalas into the countries of Kosala and Videha which appear to be partly for the purpose of proselytisation and partly for the purpose of political aggrandisement, the spirit of the conquest being associated with the missionary spirit a frequently found phenomenon in modern history One other thing we have to notice and that is about the sacred language of the respective clans The Eastern Aryans mainly used a form of Prakrit as their language a corrupt and an easier form of Sanskrit, a fact very often referred to by the Kurupanchalas. The Kurupanchalas sneered at the Eastern Aryans because of their incapacity to pronounce accurately many of the Sanskrit names. But the language sneered at by the priests of the Kurupanchalas, was not only the language of the masses among the Eastern Aryans but also the medium of this sacred literature. The Jaina and Buddhistic scriptures were all written in the foam of Prakrit language, for Pali the language of the Buddhist scriptures was but a slight modification of Prakriti. We cannot have a clear history of the beginning of this protestant school among the Aryans till we are able to understand the several obscure references which are scattered in the later Samhitas as well as in the Brahmana literature. It is enough to mention only two. The institution of Yatis and Vratyas constitute extreme obscure topics of the Vedic literature. The term Yati occurs in the Samhitas literature where they are said to be destroyed by Indra by offering them to the wolves of the forest. These Yatis are described to be Sanyasins who did not accept Indra wor