SYSTEMS OF ASTRONOMY. 23/ 



In order to show how the Hindu history, accord- 

 ing to the two former systems, had been trans- 

 ferred to this, let 197-948905, the years now ex- 

 pired be reduced into Mamvantaras and Yags, and 

 we shall have 



A A^fl^j/^ at the beginning, . . — 1728000 years. 



6 yl/fl/?rt'rtw^«;Y/5 complete, — 18J0688000 



27 Maha YlUrS of the | . ir^^nnnn 



«*i- i\r ^ \ — 116640000 



7 th Majizvantara, S 



Satya of the 28th Mahd Vug, 1728000 



Tre^r^ of ditto, 1296000 



Dwdpar of ditto, 864000 



Expired of the Cali of ditto, . 4905 



Total years expired, .... 1972948905. 



Hence, it is evident that, we are now in the 

 4906th year of the Call Vug, of the twenty-eighth 

 Alalia Vug, of the seventh Mamcantara of this 

 new system. 



Now, if we transfer the names, Sic. in the four 

 ages of the first system of tlie Graha Munjuri, to 

 the Satya, Tretd, Dxodpar and Cali abo\e-men- 

 tioned, and those in the JManzvatitai^as of the se- 

 cond system, to the Mamcantara of the same name 

 in this ; then we shall have the periods of Hindu 

 history, according to modern notions, founded on 

 the system of Brahma' Gupta. 



In the first place, by transferring the names, &c. 

 in the Dwdpar Vug of the first system, to the pe- 

 riod of the same name in the new system, Para'- 

 SARA, Vya's, and others, who lived near three 

 thousand years ago, are thrown back into antiquity 

 about 5000 years ; and the same persons who lived 

 in the eighth Manwantara, of the second system, 

 by the transfer, will appear as yet to come ; for we 

 are now only in the seventh of the new. Secondly, 



the twelve signs were first introduced, that is to say, near 1300 

 years ago ; though hitherto but little, if at all, attended to by wriler* 

 on the Hindu astronomv, &c. 



