War in Ancient India c4.s5.4

c4.s5.4

⁵ A thesis has been put forward by Prof. N. Ghose of the Dacca University in his *Indian Literature and Culture Origins*, that it was the Vrātyas who occupied the ancient Magadha and Anūpa Deśa and supplied man-power to the Indo-Aryans; that these Vrātyas became absorbed into the Aryan fold by the Vrātya Stoma ceremony, which is, according to him, a conversion ritual; that these Vrātyas formed the warrior caste and fought battles on behalf of the Indo-Aryans; that the result of this synthesis of culture was the birth of the *Atharva Veda* and other later literature glorifying the Kṣatriyas