3-24 REMARKS OX ANCIENT HINDU 



that as they had already pla'ced YudhishthiR at the 

 elofe of the Dwapaf vug Sahadena muft be at the 

 beginning of the Cali yug ; and therefore, without 

 farther ceremony, not only removed Saiiadeva but 

 his nineteen fuccefibrs, who fromed a dynaity in the 

 family of Jarasandha from the proper period in hit- 

 tory (between the years 1020 and 2103 of the Cali 

 vug) and placed them immediately before Pradyota 

 who began his rei°;n in the ] OOOth year of the Cali 

 vug. This removal was productive of two abmrdities 

 at once, both of which are particularly noticed by the 

 late Sir William Joxks in his chronology of the 

 kings of Magadha. The one, that in confequence of 

 placing -the names before Pradyota they were ob- 

 liged to aflertthat the twenty princes reigned one 

 thoufand years, that is from the beginning ot the Cali 

 yug in the year of 000 of the Creation down to the 

 lC)05th. fo that they muft have then reigned as well 

 during the flood as before and after it. The other, 

 that as a chafrh had been formed in that part of the hif- 

 torv from which the twenty reigns were removed in 

 order to make up that chalm as well as they could, 

 thev were obliged to aiiert that a dvnaftv of four 

 princes of the Cdnna race, the firft of whom (Vasude- 

 va) came to the throne in the year of the world 2/53, 

 or 1848 of the Cali yug, reigned no lefs than 345 years. 



Now as Yudhishthir was the uncle and immedi- 

 ate predeceilor of Paricshit, and consequently 

 contemporary with Parasara the father of \ yasa ; 

 it is clear that both Yudhishthir and Saiiadeva 

 muft have reigned about the year '2825 of the world : 

 winch is about feventy two years after the reign of the 

 above Vasudkva of the Carinar-dce, and correiponding 

 prechely with the chaim. 



Innumerable other inftances of the abfurdities 

 of the modern Hindus might be produced, but 



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