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Y. B. C. 



Buddha , — 1027 



Paricshir, — 1017 



Pradyota (reckoning 20 or 30 1 Qr 



generations) ^ ' ' 



y. a. c. 



Nanda, -— 13 or 313 



This correction would oblige us to place llcrama- 

 ditya before Nanda, to whom, as all the Pandits agree, 

 he was long posterior j and, if this be an historical 

 fact, it seems to confirm the Bhagawatamrita, which 

 fixes the beginning of the Culiyug about a thousand 

 years before Buddha ; besides that Balin would then 

 be brought down at least to the sixth and Chundra- 

 bija to the tenth century after Christ, without leav- 

 ing room for the subsequent dynasties, if they reigned 

 successively. 



Thus have we given a sketch of Indian history 

 through the longest period fairly assignable to it, and 

 have traced the foundation of the Indian empire above 

 three thousand eight hundred years from the present 

 time ; but, on a subject in itself so obscure, and so 

 much clouded by the fictions of the Brahmans, who, 

 to aggrandize themselves, have designedly raised 

 their antiquity beyond the truth, we must be satis- 

 fied with probable conjecture and just reasoning from 

 the best attainable data j nor can we hope for a sys- 

 tem of Indian Chronology, to which no objection 

 can be made, unless the astronomical books in San- 

 scrit shall clearly ascertain the places of the colures 

 in some precise years of the historical age, not by 

 loose traditions, like that of a coarse observation by 

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