The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s3.3

c9.s3.3

A paramount element in the public life of Vedic India is furnished by the wars of the colonising i.e. Aryan *viṣ*-groups with the Dasyus (original inhabitants). Wars among the colonising i.e. Aryan *viṣ* groups themselves, e.g., the five *kriṣṭayah*, *kṣitayah* or *jātāh*, namely, Yadu, Anu, Druhyu, Turvasa and Puru constitute a second factor of importance. External or foreign politics, to use modern categories, form the foundations of *viṣ* activities. It is the *viṣ* nucleus that is abroad "conquering and to conquer," and it is the "world-conquests" of these *viṣ*-groups that the fire-*riṣis* or sages are promoting in and through their *Ṛiks* (X, 84, 3).⁶