83 tSSAY ON 



The accuracy of the annals of Ch'ma^ and the care- 

 lessness of the Hhidu chronologers^ are equally- 

 known; and, of course, the former must be our 

 guide. 



According to tlie Baudd'uists, the ancient Bud- 

 dha, or Dharma-Ra'ja, probably the same with 

 Yudhishti'ra, manifested himself, or began to reign, 

 1367 years B. C. as mentioned in the Ayin-achcri. 

 It wnll appear hereafter, that the Diiaiiha-Ra ja, 

 the subordinate Menu of his Culpa, was really the 

 JVIiNOS of the Greeks: that Crishna, or Ra'd'iia'- 

 Mo'iiANA, was the same with Rhadamantiius, or 

 JflADHAMANEs. MiNOs could uot have lived earlier 

 than 130, or 140 years, before the Trojan war, which 

 happened 1184 B. C. and the time of his death hap-^ 

 pened about 1320 years before the same Era. If the 

 taking of 7V'{?j/ happened ]200 B. C. as some suppose, 

 then Minos died about the year 1330: and admit- 

 ting, that the first year of tlie Cali-yuga was the 1370 

 ycarB, C. Yudhishti'ra, of course, died in the 1332; 

 according to some who assert, that he died 38 years 

 after the beginning of the Cali-yuga. Others say, 

 that he lived 28, and even 8 years onl}', after the 

 beginning of that period. The DharmatRa'ja of 

 tht Baucldhists\\\'e(\ 120, and Minos 120 also, or 125 

 years, according to others, Noxxus, in his Diouy- 

 Macs, shews that Jara'-Sandha, literally old Saxdha, 

 Maha-ruja, of India, and whom he well describes, 

 when he says, that Morrheus, the Emperor of India, 

 who was called Sandes, was contemporary with 

 Minos ; and his Bacchus is the same with Bh agava'x, 

 in the character of Crishna, Thus we have two J^jras 

 of the same event, (an inferior, and subordinate Ca- 

 taclysm, or desolation,) one 1578, and the other 13/0 

 years J3. C. This desolation of the world was the 

 cjeluge of ])eucalion, as I have shewn in my Essay 

 on mount Caucasus: and they made use of the same 



