3£)5 REMARKS ON* ANCIENT HINDU 



The order in which the above Manwantaras followed 

 each other is not now known, but I have given them 

 in the order in which they were written, in the memo- 

 xvaXftoke or verfe. However, as the fir ft Manwantara 

 commenced jutt when fifty years of Bra'hma's life 

 (that is one half of the grand cycle of this fvftem) 

 were expired it is eafv to perceive that the 13th on the 

 lift mult have been the firft Manwantara ; and I fuf- 

 pecl that the 10th was the fecond, the 11th. the 

 third, the 12th. the fourth and the 14th the fifth Man- 

 wantaras, all of which appear to have been computed 

 according to mean motions only, the other nine hav- 

 mg the appearance of being computed according to the 

 true place of the planet, on which the regulation of 

 the periods depended. 



In this fyftern, which appears to have been in ufe 

 before the time of Meya for vugs, viz. a Satya, Tre- 

 ta, Dwapar, and Cali yug formed a Maha vug ; fe- 

 venty-one Maha yugs with a Sandra, equal to a Sa- 

 tya yug, formed a Manwantara ; anctYouneen of fuch 

 Manwantaras with a Sandhi, equal to a Satya yug, or 

 1000 Maha yugs, formed a Culpa or a day of Bra'hjma, 

 and his night was of the fame length ; 360 of fuch 

 days and nights form one of his years ; and 100 of 

 of fuch years the period of his life or the grand Pura- 

 nic cycle, in which all the planets with the nodes and 

 apiides of their refpective orbits were iuppofed to re- 

 turn to a line of conjunction in the beginning of aries 

 the point they fet out from at the commencement of 

 the cycle. 



From the apparent fhortnefs of the Puranic Man- 

 wantaras, (which probably did not exceed 3 or 400 

 years at molt) and confequently of the Calpa, the 

 term of Bra'hma's life above mentioned ap- 

 pears to have been absolutely neceffary in this fyf- 

 tem to render is applicable to the purpofe of agro- 

 nomy. 



