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EVIDENCES OF EARLY ARYAN INVASIONS OF ASAM 33 It is a fact that caste system even among the Vedic Aryans was comparatively a later development, and the group of Aryans with whom Kalitas might be connected certainly were one among the first to have left their original home as is found from the extant linguistic evidences. There is an equal possibility that the Kalitas themselves might not have been Nordic people, from whom the Vedic Aryans descended; and they might even belong to the Mediterraneans or Alpine, or an Alpine Cum Mediterranean race having a mutation with the Vedie Aryans long before the Vedic people entered India. Latost investigations in this respect appear to point to the conclusion that the Kalitis descended through the Varman line of kings, whose representative Bhaskar was recognized Is a Brahman by Yuin Chwang, from Naraka who in turn was connected, in regard to his breeding and culture, with Janaka of Videba, the Intter definitely belonging to the Alpine com Mediterranean civilisation. There Alpines are decidedly responsible for the metaphysical theosophy of transmigration of itmen (soul), which the Vedle Aryans learnt at their feet, the religion of the latter being only a form of nature worship, and the great elvilization of the Indus Valley in Mahenjadaro and Harappa belong to these Mediterranean people. Latest researches would connect these people with the Panis men- tioned in the Vedie literature and would prove their co-existence even in martial relations against each other with the Rx Vedic Aryans. The Panis are represented as "traders, users and enormously rich as were the Harappans having their trade representatives in Babylonia. "There were clear traces of the relies of the Harappan civilisation in the valley of the Ghnggar, the ancient Saraswati "YA Sfantomer wide- Vatan Pani (which pounded the Panis, R. VI, 61,1). Again "Seres. a gharamaso pik (Saraswati was the iron fortress, Rk. VII, 95, 1) may imply that the river had been the boundary betwoon the two civilizations. What is still noteworthy is that the Panis are des cribed as "non-sacrificing or as not worshipping the gods". From the Rig Vedic references, hostile as they must be it can be gathered that the Vedic Aryans were always jealous of the Paris and they cared more for acquisition of the wealth of the Panis than for annexing their terri- tories. Panis were powerful enough for them nd they mus have defented the Vedic Aryans on various secasions, but the Rig Veda is not expected to give details of these defests". A. S. Altekar refers to an interesting incident." There is one hymn in the Rig Veda which shows that if the Aryans raided and looted the Paris, la the Harappans the latter often paid them back in the same coln. The Rie Veda, X. 108, shows that the Panis to the Harappan had raitied the Aryan territory, carried away their Icine and confined DS