Chronology of the Hindoos. 
names of fuch eras are prefixed ; or it may be found by fub- 
tradting the leffer number from the greater, as they ftand in 
any of the horizontal lines, under their refpedtive names at 
the top of the perpendicular columns ; thus, the years inter- 
vening between the era of Salabdn , and that of the Kalee 
Toog , are denoted by the number 3179, at the interfeclion of 
the two lines, or equally by deducting 1712 from 4891, in 
the loweft horizontal line. 
In a comparifon of the dates of the earlier Hindoo eras with 
the Chriftian era, there occurs a difficulty which it is proper 
to confider apart. This arifes from an ambiguity in our man- 
ner of reckoning the years before Chrift. It is moft ufuai to 
pafs immediately from the year one after to the year one before 
Chrift, making the interval of time only one year • but fome 
of the beft- chronologifts pafs from the year one after to the 
year zero, and from thence to the year one before ; by which 
means the interval between any number of years before and 
after Chrift is equal to the fum of thofe numbers ; and as this 
method is ufed in a 1 moft all aftronomical tables, it may, with- 
out impropriety, be called the aftronomical , and the other the 
common method. The following rules will facilitate the reduc- 
tion of the feveral Hindoo years to thofe of the Chriftian era ? . 
and to the years before it. 
To find the 
year of 
Chrift cor- 
refpondin 
with a giv- 
en date 
the 
r Kalee Toog , 
1 
3 10 1 1 
E. of Bikra - 
f fubtr. - 
* 
majit , 
when the l 
~ 5^' 
E. of Salabdn , 
date is j j 
78] 
i Bengal era, 
>pofterior J 
593 
Prefent cycle, 
to our / add < 
( 
'i / 
of 60 years, 
era, ( 
i 746 [ 
Enfuing cy- 
1 
cle, 
V / J 
* l806 J 
from if; 
to it. 
But 
