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Mr . Marsden on the 
j Kalee Yoog from 
yea 
of "j 
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I 
Blkramajit from 
But \yhen the date is prior to our era, fubtradt the 
f 3102 for common method. 
13101 for agronomical method. 
^ 57 for common method, 
i 56 for agronomical method. 
As the Hindoo year begins in our month of April (which 
will be particularly explained), we mu ft obferve, in reducing 
any Hindoo date to the Chriftian era, that when it happens 
between the commencement of our year and theirs, the num- 
ber of their year muft be increafed by one, and the fubtradtion 
or addition then made as above diredted. 
The Kalee Yoog , or principal chronological era, began in 
the year juft fpecified, when the fun’s mean place was in the 
firft point of the conftellation Aries of the Hindoo zodiac ; 
which happened on the 1 8th of February, at funrife (/), 
under their firft meridian, called the meridian of Lanka . At 
that period, it is faid to be aflerted by their aftronomers, that 
the fun, moon, and all the planets, were in conjunction, 
according to their mean places. The reality of this fadt, but 
with confiderable modification, has received a refpedtable fanc- 
tion from the writings of an ingenious and celebrated Mem- 
ber of the French Academy of Sciences, who concludes, that 
the adtual obfervation of this rare phenomenon, by the Hin- 
doos of that day, was the occafion of its eftabliftiment as an 
aftronomical epoch ( k ). Although M. Bailly has lupported 
this opinion with his ufual powers of reafoning, and although 
abundant circumftances tend to prove their early fkill in this 
fcience, and fome parts of the mathematics connedted with 
It (/), yet we are conftrained to queftion the verity or poffi- 
bility of the obfervation, and to conclude rather that the fup- 
pofed conjunction was, at a later period, fought for as an 
4 epoch, 
