The civilization of India alone has progressed for countless millenniums without being prematurely choked out of existence by the desiccation of the soil or the drying up of the nobler springs of human action by the spread of malaria or the moral decadence of the people. [...] CHAPTER I THE OLD STONE AGE THE ORIGIN OF MAN After an elaborate discussion of the various finds of relics of early man and of the supposed precursors of man belonging to the Pleiocene Epoch the latest subdivision of the Tertiary Age which preceded the present Geological Period in various parts of the world the Rev. [...] This is the origin probably of the Upavitam the manner of dressing prevalent among the Devas according to the Aranyaka referred to above the human way being Nivitam leaving both arms free and placing the skin round the right shoulder the Prächinavitam being the way of the Asuras who were the enemies of the Devas. [...] The substitution of trap-rock for quartzite the acquisition of the skill to polish the tools made with trap-rock till they became extraordinarily smooth to the touch the domestication of the wild dog and the cultivation of the wild rice led to the peaceful evolution of the epoch of new stone tools from that of the older rough implements the settled life of the neolithians from the nomad life o [...] The chief plants which passed from the wild to the cultivated state under the hands of the Indians of the Lithic Age were rice and millets pulses of several kinds and fruits the chief of which were the27 plantain and the mango.
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