$58 ON THE CHRONOLOGY 



I. It nag been aflerted in the fecond volume of the 

 Ajldlick R'fcarches, that Para/am lived about 1180 

 years before Chrift, in confequence of an obfervatio^ 

 of the places of the colures. But Mr. Davis having 

 considered- this fubjecT: with the minuteit -attention, 

 authorizes me to fay, that this obfervation mult have 

 been made IGtjl years before the Chriftian sera. This 

 is alio confirmed by a pafTage from the Varafara San- 

 fata in which it is declared, that the Utldya or heliacal 

 riling: of canopus. (when at the ditrance of thirteen de- 

 grees from the fun, according to the Hindu aitro- 

 nomers,) happened in the time of Parajcira, on the 

 10th of Cqrtica ; the difrpfence now amounts to 

 twenty-three days, Having communicated this pai- 

 ( ' to Mr. Davis, he informed me, that it coincided 

 with the obiervation of the places of the coiures 

 in the time of Parajara. 



Another fynchronifm. ftill more intereiting, is that 

 of the flood of Deucalion, which, according to the 

 beft chronologers, happened 13Q0 years before Chnji, 

 Deucalion' is derived from Deo-Calyun or Deo Caljihi :■ 

 the true Sanfcrit name is J}ev#-Cala-Ya t vana. The 

 word Cala-Yavana is always pronounced in converfa- 

 tion, and in the vulgar dialects Cd-lyun or Cdlijun : 

 lit.erally, it lignirles the devouring Yavana. He is 

 reprefented in the yardncis, as a moil powerful prince, 

 who lived in the weilern parts of India, and gene- 

 rally redded in the country of Camboja, now Gazni, 

 the ancient name of which, is So/hi or Safna. It is 

 true, they never bellow upon him the title of Deva\ 

 on the contrary, they call him an incarnate demon : be- 

 caule he pfefumed to Oppofe Crijhna ; and was very 

 near defeating his ambitious projects; indeed Crijhna 

 was nearly overcome and fubdued, after feventeen 

 bloody battles; and, according to the exprefs words 

 of the purdnaSy he was forced to have recourfe to 

 treachery : by which means Caly&n was totally defeated 

 in the eighteenth engagement. That hisfollowersanddc- 

 fcendantsihouldbeitow oh hkn the title of De'va, otDeo % 



