Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c31.51

c31.51

Marriage connexions tended to bring brahmans and the early Aila kings together and remove their antagonism, and Yayāti’s eldest brother Yati became a muni (p. 86). Further, the victorious expansion of the Ailas over the non-Aryans seriously affected the position and prestige of the brahmans and discredited their magical pretensions, so that those who adhered to the non-Aryans shared in their downfall and disappeared, as happened with Uśanas-Śukra’s descendants (p. 196). Hence regard for their own future would have inclined them towards the Ailas. That necessitated some assimilation of their religious beliefs and practices with those of the Ailas, and caused a gradual change from magic to religious worship, from medicine-man to priest proper.