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INTRODUCTION
because mythology, on account of its endeavour to conceal and disguise the truth under the attractive garb of allegory, is sure to mislead humanity in the end. All the chief religious quarrels of men have risen, without exception, through mythology, and will end completely the moment it is thrown away by men. This makes it quite clear that the source of Truth could never have arisen outside Jainism or outside India. Probably the mythological allegorising took place for the first time in India. Some of the followers of the Tirthamkara's creed took to allegorising at a time when there were no Omniscient Teachers to warn them, and the pastime proved very attractive. They were followed by others. Huge pantheons soon rose, outsiders also copying Aryan allegorists. Later a sharp division occurred between the Scientific section and the mythologists. The descendants of the former are termed Jainas to-day; those who allegorised first of all are the Hindus!
Thus, no other country than India can be found that may be termed the birth-place of both the Sanskrit language and of the Religion of the people who spoke that tongue. India, then, must be the real home of the Aryans. It came to be known as Bhāratvarşa after Bharata who was the first great Chakravarti (the term signifies a