Kulakara

In Jainism, kulakara (also manu) refers to the wise men who teach people how to perform the laborious activities for survival.

[1] According to Jain Cosmology, when the third ara (epoch) of the avasarpani (present descending half-cycle of cosmic age) was nearing its end, felicities due to ten type of Kalpavriksha (wish-fulfilling trees) started declining.

Jainism acknowledge a set of first law-givers who flourished in the present Avasarpini age (in the third division called susama-duhsama, when beings were born as twins and when the Kalpavriksha (wishing trees) used to provide them with necessary food, light and other necessities of life).

When the trees that shed strong light around them, in the state of the bhogabhumi disappeared and the sun and the moon became visible, the people, who saw them for the first time, were alarmed.

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.

Pratishruti’s son Sanmati was the second Kulkar whose height was 1,300 Dhanush and who lived for one hundredth of a Palya.

Hitherto the feeding-trees had supplied men and animals with enough food; but now the conditions were changing, and every one had to look for himself.

He taught men how to utilise the services of domestic animals, and invented the tethering rope, the bridle and the like to keep them under control.

[11][10] The tenth manu was Abhi Chandra, in whose time the old order of things underwent still further changes.

According to Jain texts, thick rain cloud began to gather in the sky freely in his time.