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RIŞABHA DEVA
He taught men the science known as Nimitta Jnāna, which is not the art of foretelling future but that of predicting the occurrence of certain events by means of their appropriate characteristic forerunners (signs). He also instructed men in the Sciences of astronomy and medicine. Bharata was an accomplished master and a perfect judge of the elephant and the horse ; and understood all about their marks and ailments, in which he also instructed his people.
In regard to religion Bharata was devoted with all his heart to His Divine Father whose Image he had installed on the altar of his heart, where he worshipped Him day and night, whenever he got time to do so. Filled, from his childhood, with the spirit of world-flight, he adopted the five vows of the householder's course, early in his career, and observed them, without blemish and faltering, throughout life, irrespective of the fact whether he was at home or on the battlefield. He lived in the world but without being attached to it as ordinary men are. A saint at heart, he never abandoned himself to sense-indulgence, or allowed his better nature to be overpowered by the animal in him. He knew that the first great thing for a Kshatriya was to take care of his intellect; for through the right kind of intellect one could attain to the
