204 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [April, 1910. 



onsidered a greater authority on astronomy 



in it occurs 



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The total period of the Kaliyuga age is 4,32,000 years, and 

 according to Khandakhadi it is divided into the following six 



eras : — 



Yudhishthira 



Vikramaditya 



Shalivahana 



Vi j ay a vinandana 



Nagi Arjuna 



Balidanava 



3,044 

 135 



18,000 



10,000 



4,00,000 



821 



It is evident that down to Vikramaditya' s time 3,044 years 

 of Kaliyuga, after Yudhishthira 's accession, had passed. Vikra- 

 maditya's era is now 1967, and if we add these together they 

 amount to 5011, which exactly is now the Kaliyuga era. It 

 therefore shows that Yudhishthira was ruling in the beginning 

 of Kaliyuga. 



Nirnai-Sindhu , another book of authority on astronomy, 

 contains the following stanza : 



WfT^fWcftf Haifa? *IHfcM4UJT * I 



It states that to find out how much period passed since 

 Kaliyuga began and Yudhishthira lived, 3179 should be added 

 to the Saka era. The Saka at present being 1832, it comes 

 to 5011 years. 



Professor Dunker also says (History of Antiquity, vol. iv, 

 page 219) : — " The era of Yudhishthira is said to have preceded 

 that of Vikramatditya by the space of 3044 years, and to 

 have commenced about 3100 B.C." 



On the other hand, Kalhana's chronology has been proved 

 at length to be inaccurate bv Dr. M. A. Stein in the introduction 



