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CHILDREN OF THE 



SUN. MOON. 



Aidabidi, 

 50. Viswasaha, 



C'hatwanga, 



Dirghabahu, 



Raghu, 



Aja, 

 55. Dasarafha, 



Rama. 



It is agreed among all the Pandits, that Rama, 

 their seventh incarnate Divinity, appeared as king 

 of Ayodhya in the interval between the silver and 

 the braze?i ages ; and, if we suppose him to have 

 began his reign at the very beginning of that interval, 

 still three thousand three hundred years of the Gods, 

 or a million one hundred and eighty-eight thousand 

 lunar years of mortals will remain in the silv.er age, 

 during which the fifty-five princes between Vaivas- 

 ivata and Rama must have governed the world ; but, 

 reckoning thirty years for a generation, which is ra- 

 ther too much for a long succession of eldest sons, 

 as they are said to have been, we cannot, by the 

 course of nature, extend the second age of the Hin- 

 dus beyond sixteen hundred and fifty solar years. If we 

 suppose them not to have been eldest sons, and even 

 to have lived longer than modern princes in a disso- 

 lute age, we shall find only a period of two thousand 

 years; and, if we remove the difficulty by admitting 

 miracles, we must cease to reason, and may as well 

 believe at once whatever the Brahmans chuse to tell 

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