﻿134 ON THE CHRONOLOGY 



CHILDREN OF THE 



SUN. MOON. 



Amersana, Lilipa, 



%i. Mahaswat, Pratipa, 20. 



Viswabhahu, Santanu, 



Prasenajit, Vichitravirya, 



Tacshaca, Pandu, 



Vrihadbala, Yudhishfhira, 



30. Vrihadrana, Y. B. C. Paricshit, 25. 



3100. 



Here we have only nine-zxs.d-twenty princes of the 

 solar line between Rama and Vrihadrana exclusively ; 

 and their reigns', during the whole bfazeti age, are 

 supposed to have lasted near eight hundred and sixty- 

 four thousand years : a supposition evidently against 

 nature, the uniform course of which allows only a 

 period of eight hundred and seventy . or., at the very 

 utmost, ol a thousand, years for twenty-nine gene- 

 rations. Paricshit, the great nephew and successor 

 of Yudhishfhir, who had recovered the throne from 

 Duryodhan, is allowed without controversy to have 

 reigned in the interval between the brazen&nd earthen 

 ages, and to have died at the setting in of 'the 

 Qaliyug ; so that, if the Pandits of Cashmir and Vh- 

 ranes have made a right calculation of Buddha'" ap- 

 pearance, the present, or fourth, age must have be- 

 gun about a thousand years before the birth of Christ, 

 and consequently the reign of Icshwacu, could not 

 have been earlier than four thousand years before that 

 great epoch ; and even that date will, perhaps, ap- 

 pear, when it shall be strictly examined, to be near 

 two thousand years earlier than the truth. I cannot 

 leave the third Indian age, in which the virtues and 

 vices of mankind are said to have been equal, with- 



