322 REMARKS ON ANCIENT HINDU 



reigned, according to the Hindu accounts near the* 

 clofe of the Treta yug of the Poets. Paras aha, the 

 father of Vyasa, was therefore about one or two gene- 

 rations after Rama. But, from the obferved places of 

 the equinoxes and folftices in the year 3600 of the 

 pre fen t Cali yug, by one Varaha, an aftronomer, 

 and their places as mentioned by Parasara, it would 

 appear, that the obfervations of the latter mull have 

 been about 1(380 years before Varaha ; which will 

 therefore place Parasara about the year 2825 of the 

 world, correfponding to the 1097th of the Treta yug 

 of the Poets ; and as Parasara may have been then 

 between thirty and forty years old, we may place Ra- 

 ma about the year 1030 ; and Valmic and Vyasa 

 about the year 110'2 of the Treta yug of the Poets, 

 being the 2830th of the Creation. Thefe years may 

 not be the exact times in which they refpedtively 

 lived ; but, I believe, they do not vary from the 

 truth above forty or fifty years either way, and nearer 

 than this we cannot well expect to bring them. 



By having thus obtained the refpeclive times or 

 years in which Rama, Parasara, Vyasa, and Val- 

 mic lived, we have afcertained a point of the utmoft 

 importance to the chronology of Hindus. 



The war.of Mahabarat took place in the time of 

 Vyasa, in confequence of which he wrote his epic 

 poem called the Mahabarat , and on the compofitiou 

 of which he confuked Valmic Vyasa was therefore 

 contemporary with Chr 1 sh x a, Arj ux, Ae hi m ari y ir, 

 Yudhishthir, Pari c shit, and others engaged in 

 that famous war. 



Shortly after that war, and towards the clofe 

 of the reign of Pari c suit, the Hindu hiftori- 

 ans of that part of Indfcr, where Paricshit reigned, 



