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^rfw %tvk w%\ g figicTT^ te t^em i ( nw- ) 



" According to him, therefore, Yudhishthira flourished at 

 the beginning of the Kaliyug. 



' * An inscription in a Jain temple on a hill near 

 Yahola, Kaladaggi district, Deccan, says that the temple, built 

 by King Pulkeshi II, of the Chalukya family, was erected 3735 

 years after the Mahabharata, and when 556 years of the Saka 

 era had passed, thus proving that the Great War took place 

 3735-556 = 3179 years before the Saka era ; in other words 3179 + 

 1828 (Saka era) = 5007 years ago. The inscription runs as 

 follows 



^HT^WTcT^^ ^(TT)TO^ T^g II ( WO 



SJ s# \» 



* TtWm ^t 3H% **^ H^SlcTO ^ I ( Vii ) 



STATS SOT^TcTTS SCTfTTTWfq" ^WT^ II 



* c Following evidently the view held by Bradhgargh Muni, 

 the author of the Ayeen-i-Akbari says that Vikramaditya as- 

 cended the throne in the 3044th year of the Yudhishthira era. 

 This also makes the Yudhishthira era begin 3044 + 1963 (Vikrama 

 era) 5,007 years ago." 



It 



in 



was 



commonly believed, that the Bharata war took place at 



the end of Dvapara Yuga (RajataranginL Book I, verses 48 and 

 49). 



In the introduction to Metakshara by Bapudeva ^hastri, 



the famous astronomer, is written that during the first 



century of Kaliyuga, Parikshit was born. Parikshit was 



grandson of Arjuna, the" brother of Yudhishthira. It is 



also recorded in the same introduction that at the beginning 



of the reign of Janmejaya, only 125 years of Kaliyuga had 



elapsed. Janmejaya was the great-grandson of Arjuna. Tara 



Calcutta, and the well-kno\* 



Principal of Free Sanskrit Colleg 



books in Sanskrit, has also, after making researches, 

 written in his introduction to Sarala, the commentary of 

 Sidhantakaumadi, that Parikshit was born when only 80 years 



of Kaliyuga had elapsed. 



An important confirmation of this hypothesis is added 

 from the following : About 1,300 years ago, when the great 

 work on astronomy, namely, Khandakhadi, was written by 

 Brahmagupta in which its author gives authority of Arya Bat, 

 the famous astronomer of ancient times. This book is 



