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c<5n'iputation nearly witli the Pauranics, for they 

 say, that it happened 1529 years B. C. according to 

 EusEEius and the Parian Chronlchy and other au- 

 thors : whilst the ablest Chronologers have shewn, 

 that it could not have happened earlier than the year 

 1380 B. C. The Greeks had also four au:cs, like the 

 Hindus ; and the last, or Iron ag\% answering to the 

 Cali-yiiga, began some time before the Trojan wary 

 and a little after the expedition of the Argonauts and 

 Deucalion. Hcsiod laments very much, that he 

 Avas born during that age of corruption and wretch- 

 edness. Thus the Greeks and the Pauranics them- 

 selves, in their more sober moments, agree perfectly 

 about the beginning of the Cali-i/uga, or Iron age. 



According to the Institutes of Menu, we may 

 place the beginning of the Cal'i-yuga about the year 

 1370 before Christ. For we read there, that men 

 in the golden age lived 400 years ; 300 in the next, 

 or silver age: 200 in the brass one; and 100 in the 

 Cali-yuga. These four ages are obviously to be 

 reckoned from the Jhod ; after which men, as far 

 down as Eber, lived about 400 years: and then, 

 regularly decreasing, till the beginning of the Iron 

 {/ge, or 1370 B.C. when we find that Yud'hishthira, 

 Crishna, Minos, and Jupiter lived about 100 

 years. 



The followers of Jina place the beginning of the 

 Cali-yuga in the year 10/8 B. C. as we shall see here- 

 after. Their chronolo"ical svstem has of course, 

 much affinity with that of Sir Isaac Newton. 

 Every Pandit will boast, that they have uninter- 

 rupted lists of kings, from the beginning of the 

 Cali-yuga, to the Era of Vicr vma'ditya; and even 

 lower down, for the space of 3044 years : but what 

 was my astonishment, to find in perusing the Pura- 

 7i'as, that this was by no means the case, as it ap-s- 

 pears from the accompanying table, in which, one 



