Chronology of the Hindoos. "577 
year 1687 was the tenth of the leffer or conftltuent cycle of 
twelve years (s). 
In the foregoing account of the Indian eras, I am fenfible 
that I have omitted many circumftances, the detail of which, 
if accurately given, might be ufeful and interefting ; but at 
this diftance from the countries where thofe eras are employed, 
the means of information are limited, and particularly with 
refpedt to the variations prevailing in the different provinces of 
what was formerly the Mogul empire. Unfurnifhed myfelf 
with local knowledge, my objedts have been to compare and 
reconcile the information already given to the world with the ex- 
perience of perfons who have refided in Hindoftan, and to correct 
and fubftantiate the whole by bringing it to the teft of modern 
accuracy in the fcience of aftronomy. In fulfilling the laft efpe- 
cially I confefs myfelf under obligations for effential affiftance. 
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