236 ON" THE HINDU 



The revolution of the equi- } _ tno^r. 



noxcs, in 4360000000 years I "" ^99ob9 



Mean solar days 1577916-150000 



Lunar days or tithis, 1602999Q00000 



He made Sunday* the first day of the Calpa, on 

 which day, at sun rise, the planets, &c. are as- 

 sumed to have been on a line of mean conjunction 

 in the first point of Aries in the Hindu sphere. 

 Tlie years expired of this system on the 1st of Vai- 

 sac'lia (or Vysakh) this year =r 197^948905. Hence, 

 the mean places of tlie planets, &c. may be com- 

 puted, from the above data, for any instant required. 

 This is the third and last system, to which the 

 Hindus have transferred their history, and for 

 which purpose, in imitation of the ancients, they 

 divide it into Manwantaras ^Lnd. Yugs^ as follow: 



A Sah/a V?ig of, 1728000 years. 



A 7rSd of, 1296000 



A Divdpar of, 864000 



A Cali of, 432000 



A Mahd Vug, ......... 4320000 



7 1 Mahd Vugs, 306720000 



wkh a. Satya of, 1728000 



A Mamvaniara, 308448000 



]^ Alanxvantaras, 4318272000 



with a Scitya at beginning of, 1728000 



The modern Calpa, .... 4320000000 



* This is the first system, so far as we yet know, in which the 

 n«ines ofthe days of the wet k and the twelve signs were intro- 

 duced. These were probably received from the West, and the 

 lirst point of Aries was fixed to that point in the Hindu sphere, 

 »Ahicli corresponded with the instant of the vernal equinox, which, 

 in the time of Brahma' Gupta, was the beginning of Aswini. 

 This position has, thcrefoie, a direct reference to the actual time 



