GAQ BC 101 - 23rd February 2012 (Thursday)

• Early Vedic Period
• Political
• Nomadic Life
• Family (kula) -> Village (Grama) -> Visu (higher position is Raja King)
• Partriarchal Society
• Birth of a male offspring is the desire of the common people
• Administrative Staffs
• Purahita is the advisor of the king and also act as a middle man
• Senani is the army commander and must listen to Purahita
• Society
• Equalitarian
• Marriage
• Monogamy is for most people
• Polygamy is for Kings and noble people
• Wife duties is to look after the household and to participate in major religious ceremony
• No Caste division
• Arya Varna
• Dasa Varna
• Occupation not based on Birth
• Economic
• Cattle Rearing; later try to practice agriculture but no strong knowledge
• Religion: Indra (important), Agni, Varuna
• Indra was Thunder God then became War God
• These 3 Gods are Polytheism
• Seers (god pass message through them)
• Apala
• Viswavara
• Ghosa
• Lopamadra
• Early Vedic Religion reflected the patriarchal character and that it was a type of Primitive Animism
• Most of the Gods they created are of masculine character