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The Jaina Antiquary
I Vol. XIV When the sister and neighbouring communities realise that the tenets of a rising faith possess elements which would-secure communal good or enlighten the powers of the soul if adopted and practised they begin to adopt and incorporate into their lives the tenets, requisite methods of behaviour, rites and religious practices introduced by the rising faith and those methods gradually carne to be named after the faith from which they were adopted. In ancient times the håmanity was rnost disordered and promiscuous in sexual and other relations between man and man, and man and woman It is the leaders of the Jain thoughts who were the first to introduce into the society a well-controlled and balanced marriage system. The conception of brotherhood of man arose out of the teaching of Jainism and the 'Anagára Dharma' of Lord Rishabhadeva was its climax. In order to illustrate the above contentions by concrete examples I am proposing to enumerate below certain facts of im. portance. Before those facts are given however it would be abvisable to bear in mind the following propositions of historical and geog. raphical importance.
(1) The time about which we are writing is very ancient and we cannot ascertain its date at present.
(2; In ancient times humanity lived in small groups "The people were not known by the country of their occupation as at present but the countries were known by the tribes which populated the same whenever unfavourable circumstances made it impossible for a tribe to continue to inhabit the country the whole tribe used to move out of that country.
(3) The small tribes in which the people were divided were constantly on enmical terms with one another. This enmity and exclusiveness developed in them specialities of behaviour, dress, likings etc. with a result that cach tribe looked quite distinct from the rest. For instance Nága tribes distinguished themsalves by using a head dress which resembled the hood of a cobra
(4) The phonetic and other similarities between languages current in Baluchistan and those spoken in Karnataka have led Linguists to come to the conclusion that the people of Baluchistan and those of Karnāțaka must have come from the same stock. It
