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thole, I have mentioned and explained, I think are 

 fufficient. I mail therefore conclude the iubjecl of 

 the poetic auras with the following table, mewing the 

 moon's age and month, with the day of the week on 

 which the Satya, Treta, Dwapar, and Cali vugs of the 

 poets relpectively commenced ; which will prove^ be- 

 yond a probability of doubt, that they have no con- 

 nection whatever with the agronomical vugs of the 

 fame name, belonging to the fyftem of Meya ex- 

 plained at the beginning of this efTay ; for in the lat- 

 ter all the vugs, Manwantaras, &c. belonging to the 

 fyftem begin unvariably, on the iirft day of Bxfakh, 

 the moment the fun enters Aries in the Hindu fphere. 



Poetic JEras* 



Satyay 





Tret a do. 

 Dwapar do. 

 Can do. 



Days of 



the Week. 

 Sunday 



3 for day 



Thurfday 



Tuefday 



Moons Age and Month. 



3d titthee of the moon of 

 Byfahh. 



Qth do. of do. Carrie. 

 28th do. of do. Bhddro. 

 15th do. of do. 



Magh. 



Kotc. The lunar month takes its name, from the folar month, in 

 which the new moon happens to fall. 30 titthees make a lu- 

 nation. 



With refpecl to the day of the week mentioned in 

 preceding table fome of the Hindu accounts differ. 

 The moon's age and month are extracted from the 

 Brohmo puran, which agrees with the Hindu calendar, 

 wherein the commencement of each vug is alio re- 

 corded. 



The following table of the dates of the ten avatars 

 or incarnation of the deity, which took place 

 in the above mention vugs, is extracted from an 



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