He goes to the people, and Meeting, Assembly, Army, and Wine follow him. The four are the institutions of the early Indo-Aryan tribal polity — the samiti and sabhā (deliberative gatherings), the senā (the war-band), and surā (the intoxicant that lubricates the warriors). The Vrātya stands at their head as the figure who has refused all four and yet stands as their fount. The Greek parallel that Falk and Bronkhorst both reach for is the kouros-cult of the Cretans, the young men who underwent a period of wild life on the mountains before being integrated as adult citizens. Both societies hold an idealized memory of the wanderer who must precede the settled order.Wave RR anchor — Vrātya / Greek kouros / Männerbund pre-political phase