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4. Vratyas In Indus Seals – II

5. The Geographical Migration of Vratyas:
The Atharvaveda 15.2 makes a very
ambiguous statement: “Of him in the eastern
quarter, faith is the harlot, Mitra the
Magadha, discrimination is the garment, etc”.
Probably, it is taken to mean that the
Magadha tribes (The area of present day
Bihar, South of Ganges) were friends,
advisers, and thunder (strong Supporters) of
the Vratyas. The implication of this is rather
interesting. The breakaway group, the Vratyas
from among the Vedic people, left their main
land of the basin of Indus river and moved
away eastwards.

6. Vratyas are also described to be pre Vedic
people, but associated more with nature
and declined the formalism of Vedic seers.
They were not accepted by Vedic followers;
hence, Vratyas moved away from them.
They roamed over to the East; and
ultimately settled in the regions of Magadha
and Anga where they found friends and
supporters. (Magadha and Anga is mostly,
in the regions to the East and North-west of
the Madhyadesha – the mid part of Ganga
Valley, the present day Uttar Pradesh).

7. Depiction of Vratyas and Vratya
Stoma, A Ritual of Proselytization
(attempt to convert) in the Harappan
Seal of Kalibangan:
Interpreting Indus seals by deploying the
literary sources, social and cultural
practices that prevailed in those times
brings out the information hidden in the
seals. The seal, analysed here, show a
strong correlation to Social practices that
were followed in Vedic period.

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