;MO't HINDU' RELIGION 



gifls. The united amount of the four periods, counting to the com- 

 mencement of the pre fent era, is no more Jhan 15,025 years. Ilite- 

 rally tranfcribe the account of the yogas with which I was fupp lied, 

 without pretending to offer any explanation of the fingular difcrepancy 

 between it and all the Indian accounts, however difagreeino among 

 themfelves. 



The coriimon eras of the call — infalar Hindus^ take their rife by 

 their own account from the date of the firft introduclion oi' Hmdui/m . 

 among them. This event took place in Java* . iy^2 years ago, and 

 in Bali five years later. The Javanefe era is called the era of Aji Saka , 

 This I fufpe61:3 implies a tautology, as it means no more than the era of-. 

 the prince tvho inftituted the era. The leader of the firft Indian' 

 colony to Java was- ci. Brahman^ n^medTRiTvsri, -who is with reafon 

 believed to be alluded; to under the title of Aji Saka ; dates are fome 

 times written in figures, which is generally the cafe in the different < 

 infcriptions found on Java: but a pradice which I believe to be 

 JBindu, that of fubftituting written images, bearing fome analogy to the 

 number intended to be reprefented, is much more frequent. The 

 "whole of the numbers of a particular date are ft rung together in to- 

 averfe, in which is generally implied fome allufion to the tranfac- 

 'lion which it records* An example or two wiUexplain this^ 



Th-s following <^iwe commemorat-es' the building of. the. principal 1 

 temples at Mramh(i?ia'i on Java : , 



MsiAMMA-RA..ikukanariazou/aniy. 



THis-meaaS'^^'that, .,S?f'£^/j/?2^7?-. h€•ld:^ up- the moon inboth-hands." It' 

 means to imply th^t the place was built by 5;■'.7^7;^JWi, and ;the mar- 



* 'J lie Javanefe, notw iihttaiiding jhdr Cujiveifibi. ^la'Mahomedamfmy&Xii j'ici'vrvc ihe ll'udu e.'S, and never 

 ■calculated bj ih^i-ffeji'ma 



