[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [War in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944) › c4.s5.4 # War in Ancient India c4.s5.4 War in Ancient India c4.s5.4 - **Language:** English ### [c4.s5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.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 - [Previous: c4.s5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c4.s5.3) - [Next: c4.s6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c4.s6.1) - [Up: c4.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c4.s5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c4.s5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c4.s5.4) · Pramāṇa