[181] Professor Hearn's opinion was that the Hindu _gotra_, the Roman _gens_ and the Greek g'enoc were originally the same institution, the exogamous clan with male descent, and all the evidence available, as well as the close correspondence in other respects of early Hindu institutions with those of the Greek and Latin cities would tend to support this view.
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Comparison of Hindu society with that of Greece and Rome.

The _gens_.
In the admirable account of the early constitution of the city-states of Greece and Italy contained in the work of M.Fustel de Coulanges, _La Cite Antique_, a close resemblance may be traced with the main strata of Hindu society given earlier in this essay.

The Roman state was composed of a number of _gentes_ or clans, each _gens_ tracing its descent from a common ancestor, whose name it usually bore.

The termination of the Gentile name in _ius_ signified descendant, as Claudius, Fabius, and so on.