£0{? ON THE CHRONOLOGY 



ftood of fucce (lions in a direclline; if fo, it agrees 

 well enough with the preferrt lift of die defendants of 

 J ujha, or Deo-Navjh. This is what they call the gene- 

 alogies limply, or the great genealogy, and which they 

 coniider as the bails of their hiflory. They Reckon 

 thefe fucceflions in this manner : from Nan/ha to 

 Ctijhna, and collaterally from Naujh to Paricfkita ; 

 and afterwards from Jarajandfta, who was contempo- 

 rary with CriJIma. Accordingly the number of kings 

 amounts to more than 153 ; but, as I wanted to give 

 the full extent of the Hindu chronology, I have in- 

 troduced eight or nine kings, which, in the opinion 

 of feveral learned men, fhould he omitted, particularly 

 fi>:, among the anceftry of Crijhna* 



MegtlftheneS) according to Plhiy and Arrian, feems 

 to fav, that 504 '2 vears are to be reckoned between 

 DiohVfius, or Deo-Naufla, and Alexander, and that 

 153 kings reigned during that period : but, I believe, 

 it is a miftake of Pliny and Arrlan ; for 153 reigns, or 

 even generations, could never give fo many vears. 



Mtgafthenes reckons alfo fifteen generations between 

 TtionyJ&us and Hercules, by whom we are to under- 

 Hand, Crijhrta and his brother Bala-P^ama. To ren- 

 der this intelligible, we muft confkler Naujh in two 

 different points of view: Naujh was at firfta mere mor- 

 tal, but on mount Meru he became a Deva or God, 

 hence called Deva-Nmi/h or Deo-Naujh, in the vulgar 

 dialects. Tins happened about fifteen generations 

 before Crijhna. It its that like the fpirkual ru- 



lers of Tartary and Tibet (which countries include 

 the holy mountains of Men*), Deo-Naujh did not, pro- 

 perly fpe iking, die, but his foul ihifted its habitation, 

 and got into a new body whenever the old one was worn 

 out, either through age or iicknels. The names of 

 three of the fucceflbrs of Naujha have been preferred by 

 Arr'ta -- they we Spartemfas, Budy as, kndCradevas. The 



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