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is fixed by the circumstance of Buddha's having married I LA, the 

 daughter of ILUS, who was saved in the ark, plainly Noah, and 

 marks the real antiquity of those kings of the lunar dynasty who 

 were not wholly imaginary. 



The Avatar of Buddha is the last that has appeared. It has 

 already been observed, that the Indian Yugs are very regularly and 

 artificially disposed ; the human stature, together with human life 

 and human virtue, becoming less and less in a kind of geometrical 

 progression from a hundred thousand years to one hundred years, 

 the brief period of man's existence in the Cali age. In the same 

 manner the number of Avatars in each Yug decreases arithmetically 

 from four, and consequently the termination of Buddha's terrestrial 

 residence Concludes the third age, himself and Creeshna being the 

 only Avatars that become incarnate in the DWAPAR-YUG.* That 

 Yug consists, according to Brahminical computation, of one million 

 six hundred thousand years ; and it is scarcely necessary again to 

 state, that all the YUG s are merely astronomical periods, founded on 

 the basis of the precession of equinoxes of fifty-four seconds, more 

 or less times repeated, according to the number of Avatars in each 

 Yug. 



* This is undoubtedly the fact, and yet so strangely inconsistent are the Brahmins, that 

 books of high authority, cited as the reader has seen above, and cited too by the respectable 

 person who originally made the assertion, expressly place the birth of Buddha in the Cali-Yuc;. 

 I mention this as one of those numerous perplexing circumstances which constantly rise to 

 obstruct the progress of any man who would write an intelligible history of India from native 

 accounts, and which has made my task at times difficult and disgusting in the extreme. 



END OF THE DWAPAR-YUG, OR THIRD INDIAN PERIOD. 



