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of Vyasa, but alio on account of the exact coincidence 

 of that period with the chafm of the chronology of 

 the kings of Maghqda, which appears fufTiciently evi- 

 dent to have been occaiioned by the removal of the 

 dynafiy of Sahadeva, who was contemporary -with 

 Yudhishthih, from that period of hiilory. 



From the probabilities of the duration of life de- 

 duced from obiervations on bills of mortality, it appears, 

 that the mean duration of human life, taking one 

 man with another, does not exceed thirty-two or thirty- 

 three years. Admitting, however, the mean duration 

 .of life to be thirty-three years of this we cannot allow 

 more than a half, or leventeen years at the utmoft, to 

 each reign, in a long fucceHion of princes. There- 

 fore, as Icshwacu the fon of Noah, began his reign 

 near the beginning of the Treta yug, or in the year 

 179 of that period, if we divide the remaining years 

 1117 in the Treta yug by 17, we fhall have about 

 iixty-fix reigns from Icshwacu's time down to the 

 "end of the Treta yug ; and this number of reign is 

 confirmed by the place of Yudhishthir in the 

 ble, being; the nYtv-feventh reign, and at the i 



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time about 200 years before the end of the i r 

 yug ; fo that in all probability, it would require - 

 leait nine or ten reigns more, from his time down to 

 end of that period. After the fame rnannsr, the 

 number of computed, reigns for the whole of the D 

 par yug or 864 years, would be fifty-one : which, 

 with the former number, make altogether \\J com- 

 puted reigns ; and of this number, we find no more 

 than 114 in the folar line of princes, and full conii- 

 derably lefs in the lunar line. 



In confequence of the ancient hiftorians' adopting 

 the aftronomic aera of the Cali yug, at the clofe of 

 Paricshit's reign, as already noticed, Yudhxsh- 

 tiilr and Paricshit's in the lunar line, and with 

 Yrihadbala and Whihadraxa, their "contempora- 

 ries in the ifoiar line were removed (with others) by 



the 



