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RIŞABHA DEVA
It was Pratiśruti who understood the cause of their appearance by his superior wisdom. He explained to them that the light of the trees had been too powerful thus far to enable the sun and the moon to be seen but now that that illumination had paled they became visible. The division of day and night dates from his time. It was the day of Purņamāşi in the month of Aşādha, when the sun and the moon became visible in the sky, and it may be taken to be the first beginning of unrecorded history and of measurable time!
In the time of Pratisruti some sort of kingship also came to be recognized and established; but it was still very inchoate. Offences were rare, the people being simple folk, who were strangers to trickery and deception. It was sufficient to deter them from a wrongful act to say " ha." This was the only law that did duty for preventive measures, during the time of the first five kulakaras (wise men).
Sanmati was the second kulalara. In his time the light of the trees had faded into insignificance, and even the stars became visible in the sky. He was able to spot the constellations and may be said to be the first astronomer of the balf-cycle.
Then came Kshemankara, after the lapse of a long long time. In his time animals began to
