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Other names of persons who then lived, those of 

 Atri, Soma, and Budha, which shews the exact 

 agreement between the two systems. 



We next come to the sixth Manwantara*^ which 

 by the table, began 1 1 1 years later than the Treta, 

 or silver age. Among the names we find men- 

 tioned in the Puranas in this period, are Bhrigu 

 and Dacsha, who appear to have been cotempo- 

 rary, or nearly so. — For Yayati, the fourth prince 

 in descent from Budha in the Lunar d3masty, ac- 

 cording to the Puranas, was married to De 'va- 

 ya'ni', the grand-daughter of Bhrigu, of whom 

 he begat two sons, Yadu and Turvasu; and of 

 Sarmisht'a', the claughtcr of Vrishaparvan, the 

 grandson of Dacsha, he begat three sons more, 

 viz. Druhya, Anu, and Puru; consequently, 

 Bhrigu and Dacsha must have lived about the 

 same period, and that Budha could have been 

 earher only by a ^t\v years, perhaps one or two ge- 

 nerations at most. These circumstances, though 

 they may appear to some at first sight as trivial, 

 involve facts of considerable importance in the 

 Hindu history, while, at the same time, they 

 prove the truth of the ancient systems. 



Dacsha appears to have been an astronomer, 

 and to have formed the twenty-seven lunar man- 

 sions, and other constellations, of which he is al- 

 legorical ly called the Father, as in the following- 

 verse of the Cdlica Purdna. 



* Before Christ 2053. 



