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time of Noah ; and he is faid to have married Ila,- 

 the daughter of Noah : hence we may fafely infer, 

 that the Budha, who appeared in the 10G2d year of 

 the Cali yug, or 1Q07 of the Creation, was the very 

 fame that married Noah's daughter, and is recorded 

 as living near the beginning of the Treta yug of the 

 Poets. Here we may plainly fee, that the events, as 

 well as the time, perfectly coincide ; for the 100'id 

 year of the Cali yug correfponds not only with the 

 latter days of Noah, but alfo wi£h the 179th year of 

 the Treta yug of the poets, as may be feeii from the. 

 preceding table. 



I fhall now mention another infrance, which, while 

 it confirms "what I have above fafd, respecting the 

 ancient Hindu writers or hiflorians, adopting the attro- 

 nomic asra of the Cali yug, at different times during 

 the periods of the Treta and Dwapar vugs of the Po- 

 ets, will at the fame time explain the caufe of all the 

 confuiion and abfurdities which at prefent appear in 

 the ancient hiilory and chronology of the Hindus. 



Valmlc and Vyasa were two ancient contempora- 

 ry bards, whom the modern Hindus feparate by no 

 lefs a period than 864000 years, believing Valmic 

 to have lived near the dole of the Treta vug, and 

 Vyasa near the clofe of the Dwapar yug; and though 

 they cannot but admit that the two bards had fie-- 

 quently converted together on the fubjecT of their 

 poems, yet they will rather account for it by lap- 

 poling a miracle, than ailign any real or probable 

 caufe for an ablurdity, lb contradictory, not only to 

 nature, but to common fenfe. 



Vyasa was the fon of Par as, vn a, an ancient aftro- 

 nomer, and Pakasaka was the grandlbn of Vasisii- 

 tha, who was alfo an afrronomer, and puiboita or fa- 

 mily priefl to Rama, king of Audhya or Oud, who 



reigned, 



