Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c4.1375

c4.1375

This war is to be considered as one of the most important of wars in the world. Those who opposed Sudās were Āryas though among the supporters of Sudās were also Āryas. It was the people under Sudās who came out victorious in that war and stop to further conquests by the Āryas. From thereafter the Āryas joined with the aborigines and laid the foundation for the great Hindu civilization. Thereafter the Ṛgveda states about prayers for help to combat ‘our enemies of Āryas and Dasyus’. The gods who were recognised later were those who were not found in the vedas of the Āryas. The worship of Mahāyogi and Devī found in Mohenjodaro is an evidence of this change.