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called Dravids but there also then existed throughout upper India an ancient and highly organised religion, philosophical, ethical and severely ascetical called Jainism. Long before Aryans reached the Ganges, Jainas had been taught by some 22 Tirthankaras, prominent Saints prior to the historical 23rd viz Parshvanath born in Varanasi, north-eastern India in the 9th century B.C... Naked Jaina saints even went to Nubia (Egypt) and Abysinnia, Central Asia and Greece, even Sweden and Norway in the north of Europe and Java-Sumatra Islands to the south of the Indian sub-continent." The second is in "the Encyclopaedia Brittanica 11th edition, volume 15" where it is stated that "when Alexander the Great invaded India during the 4th century B,C., he found many naked saints who were Jainas (Jymnosophists) near Taxila on the north-west frontier and was much impressed with their knowledge and penance. He at last, persuaded one of them to accompany him to Greece. These men went about naked, used themselves to hardships and were held in the highest honour. Every wealthy house was open to them, even the apartments of women."
There is also a further possibility. Thoughts themselves may have travelled and attempted to make inter-connections between various peoples at various places in the world during the period 1,300 B.C. to 300 B.C. The Consciousness Force that has pervaded the universe since it was born and is pervading even now has not been yet understood by mankind. Modern Science has just only begun and the recognition of the role of consciousness has become now a radical departure from classical science. Of the levels and grades of this Consciousness Force, its billions of wavelengths and the billions of its rates of vibrations, Modern Science still knows nothing. The working of innumerable conscious forces thus on the universe is capable to generate, establish and co-ordinate any thing or event beyond the knowledgable capacity of a man though it looks to man to day that he knows almost all, notwithstanding his being reminded on innumerable occasions of the necessity of humility.
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