Public Administration in Ancient India c5.2

c5.2

WHEN the primeval Āryas left their original cradle-home—we do not exactly know where it was, whether in Persia, or in Central Asia, or in the regions farther north—and entered on their journeys in different directions, they had already passed out of the nomadic and pastoral stages of civilisation. The dawn of history thus finds the Indo-Āryans settled on the banks of the Seven Rivers (Sapta-Sindhavah), leading a civilised life, practising agriculture and some of the simpler kinds of manufacture, and adoring whatever is sublime and beautiful in Nature.