काश्यप संहिता (वृद्ध जीवकीय तन्त्र व विद्योतिनी हिन्दी टीका सहित)

१०० | काश्यपसंहिता वा वृद्धजीवकीयं तन्त्रम्

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एव मार्याणां प्राथमिकं प्रभवस्थानं, ततः शाखाविभेदेन प्रसरन्तस्ते केचन पाश्चात्त्यप्रदेशेषु केचन पौरस्त्यप्रदेशेष्वभ्युपगताः, पौरस्त्या शाखैव भारतीयेति निरूपयन्ति । परमुपलब्धेषु सांसारिकसाहित्येषु ऋग्वेदः सर्वप्रथमं साहित्यमिति सर्वैरङ्गीक्रियते । तदालोचने तत्रोल्लिखिता देशनदीनगरग्रामपर्वतादयः । सर्वे पाञ्चालसिन्धुसौवीरादिपरिसरप्रदेशगताएव दृश्यन्ते । तत्रत्यानामार्याणामन्यतः कुतश्चिदागमनं तेषामन्यत्पूर्वाभिजनं वोल्लिखितं न किमप्युपलभ्यते । तत्र सुरजातीयानामसुराणां च मिथः सङ्घर्षादिवृत्तं च लभ्यते । एतदनुसन्धानेन पाञ्चालसिन्धु-सौवीरप्रदेशस्तत्सन्निकृष्टैरानेवब्लोनियाऽसीरियादिप्रदेशश्च पूर्वाभिजनस्थानमवगम्यते । आस्तां तावदिदं पूर्वाभिजनविषयकं विचारान्तरम् । किन्तु याः खलु प्राचीना जातयस्तासां प्राचीनासु भाषासु ऋग्वेदस्य भाषायास्तद्भवतत्समादिरूपेण बहुशः साम्यदर्शनेन भाषातत्त्वदृशाऽपि बहोः कालात्पूर्वमेकस्मादेव मूलवृक्षात् परितः शाखाप्रसरणमनुमीयते विवेचकैः ॥

न केवलं भाषादृष्ट्यैव, अपितु प्राचीनतमासु पाश्चात्त्यजातिषु भारतीयजातौ च विषयान्तरीयसभ्यताया अति बहुशः साम्यमनुसन्धीयते । तत्रैकस्यां प्राचीनतमपरिस्थितौ वर्तमाना सभ्यता ततः प्रसृतासु शाखासु प्रसरन्ती पाश्चात्त्यप्राचीनजातिषु भारतीयशाखायां च न्यूनाधिकभावेन समच्छायामापादयामास । किं वा वैदिकी आर्यसभ्यता परितः प्रसरन्ती पाश्चात्त्यप्रदेशीयपूर्वजातिष्वपि स्वं प्रतिफलनं विदधौ इति विचारान्तरमुपतिष्ठते ॥

बेब्लोनियां प्रदेशे कसाऽइटिस्-(Kassites B. C. 1760) वंशोद्भवानां राजकुमाराणां नामसु सूर्येन्द्रमरुच्छब्दानां;

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developed culture were disseminated in Asia and Europe by the speakers of the common Aryan of Indo-European language most probably the beginning of the second millenium. B.C. The speakers of the common Aryan language either in the plains of Hungary in the valley of the Danube as Giles maintains in the Cambridge History of India or in Southern Russia near about the Caspian Sea as Carnoy and other scholars have maintained. In any way there is no doubt that they lived in a geographical area in which such trees as birch (bhurja), willow etc. were abundant and these trees are found, as has been pointed out by various scholars, only in the region from East Prussia to the Pamirs, The Aryanam Vaejo (the home land of the Aryas), of the Iranian tradition also may be modern Ajarbaizan, one of the states in the Caucasus.

Names of gods like Mitra, Nasatya, Indra, Varuna etc. have been discovered in the inscriptions of the Mittanians, and other traces of the presence of the Aryans between 1800-1400 B. C. have been discovered in Asia Minor. These land-marks show that various branches of the Aryans were on the move in this period, in search of new lands and it was probably in this period that the Indo-Iranians also migrated towards the east and settled down on the confines of India and Iran. A schism soon took place amongst the Indo-Iranians and the that branch whom we call the Indo-Aryan migrated further to the East towards India.

From a comparative study of the literature and religion of the Iranians and the Indo-Aryans (viz. the Gathas of the Avesta and the Athrvaveda) it is abundantly clear that they inherited common religious and literary traditions. The religion was entirely ritualistic and there is no doubt that this religion had its origin in a still earlier period amongst the speakers of the common Aryan language because elements of this ritualism are found also amongst other branches of the Aryan speaking people. Literary tradition also seems to be very old, if we are to judge from the common parentage of the metres used in the Homeric epics, those used in the Avestan Gathas and those used in the Vedas.

EVIDENCE OF THE PRESENCE OF THE ARYANS IN ASIA MINOR.

१. The Kassites who established a dynasty at Babylon in 1760 B. C. In the names of their princes we get the following elements-Surias (Surya), (Indas (Indra), Maruttas (Marutah) and-bugas (Iranian baga-god). They introduced also the use of horse for the first time.