﻿OF THE HINDUS. 23I 



*' for the Dwapar, and by one for the Call Yug. Di- 

 " vide either of the Yugs by six far its «SW//i and 

 " Sandhyansa. Seventy-one fugs ■■•ake a Minwan- 

 « tera ; and at the close of each Nanvjantera there is 

 " a SW& equal to the Satya Yug, during which 

 " there is an universal deluge. Fourteen Manwan- 

 " teras, including the Sandhi, compose a Calpa, and 

 " at the commencement of each Calf a there is a 

 a Sandhi equal to the &*/>w Yug, or 1,728,000 ,S*wra 

 " years. A Calpa is therefore equal to 1000 Maha 

 « Kg*. One 6W^ is a day with Brahma, and his 

 " night is of the same length ; and the period of his 

 " life is 100 of his yeais. One half of the term of 

 " Brahma's life, or fifty years, is expired, and of the 

 " remainder the first Calpa is begun; and six Man- 

 « wan t eras, including the Sandhi, are expired. The 

 " seventh Manwantera, into which we are now ad- 

 " vanced, is named Vaivaswata. Q{x\<v=>Manwante a 

 " twenty-seven Maha Yugs are elapsed, and we are 

 " now in the Satya Yug of the twenty-eighth, which 

 " Satya Yug consists of 1,728,000 Saura years. The 

 « whole amount of years, expired from the begin- 

 " ningofthe Calpa • to the present time, may hence 



• Construction of the Calpa. j Computation of the period 



elapsed of the Calpa at the end 

 of the last Satya age, when 

 the Surya Siddhanta is sup- 

 posed to have been written. 



Tears. 

 Sandhi at the beginning of 



theCalfa, - - - 1728000 



6 Manwanteras, or 



308448000 X 6 = 1850688*00 



27 Maha Tugs of the 7th 



Met nil) ant era, or 



4320000 X i?" I166400CO 



Satya Age of the 28th 

 C,Jf>a, ----- 4T^7^"o Maha Tug, - - =~ *?»8ooo 



^Savant '- eqU - 1 t0 - th - i7»8eo o i 9 7°~4°°<> 



Whole duration of Calpa, 4320000000 1 



Q.3 



5.320000 



Tears. 



— 432CCC 



4-520000 



X»7 W ^^r, -^ X 2 = 864000 



4^0000 .. ,. _ 1296000 



5fl V a » Tie -"— ,- 



Aggregate or Maha Tug, 432COCO 



Af«w«»»«»-«f " " lio^oooo 

 W ich a Sandhi equal to the 



Satya Tug, 1 - - *7*8 °£° 



308448000 



