be the time from the Cali Yug, or the entrance of the sun into Aries, to the birth of Christ, according to Eusebius.[1]
| Again, add together 4 cycles of 600 each, and we have | 2400 |
| Then add the æra of the death of Buddha pointed out by Cassini | 543 |
| Then add the difference between the æra of his death and the beginning of a Neros, the duration of his life | 57 |
| And it leaves exactly 5 Neroses | 3000 |
The beginning of the Cali Yug is invariable, being 3100 B. C., or 3044 before Vicramaditya.[2] This last 3044+2160=5204, is Eusebius’s period, Usher’s mistake allowed for.
If in the last calculation we count the æra for the death of Buddha at 544, as uncorrected by Cassini, and take the age of Buddha at 56, exactly the time, according to the Lebtarikh, which Augustus was born before Christ, we shall have 3000 years, or five Neroses from the flood to the birth of Christ.[3]
Wilford says, the Samaritans count 3040 years from the flood to the birth of Christ. From this it appears that they used the Neros of 608 in their calculation.
Again, from the period between the Cali Yug and Christ, 3101 years, take the time between the epoch 543 and Christ, viz. 57, and we have 3044: exactly the time, according to the Samaritan computation, between the birth of Christ and the flood, Usher’s error allowed for.
In India there was an æra called the æra of Vicramaditya. Many learned Pundits make him begin to reign 3044 years after the flood, and they add that, after a reign of 56 years, he died in the year 3101, which year 3044 was the first of the Christian æra of the flood, according to the Samaritan computation, Usher’s error allowed for; thus completing the cycle, and with three before the flood, make the eight required.[4]
| Years of the world to Christ | 4000 |
| Years from creation to flood | 1656 |
| 2344 | |
| Admitted error in Hebrew, or the Samaritan without error | 700 |
| 3044 | |
| Life of Vicramaditya 56 years | 56 |
| 3100 |
This shews the Indian and Samaritan to be precisely the same.
There was also an æra of Salivahana, of whom I shall have much to say hereafter. He conquered and killed Vicramaditya. His æra commenced at the death of his enemy, that is, at the birth of Christ. The Samaritans, who give 700 years more between the flood and Christ than the Hebrew and Vulgate, appear to have calculated by the precession of the equinoxes, and to have
- ↑ The Cali Yug begins when the Sun enters Aries at the Vernal Equinox. Jones, Asiat. Res. Vol. II. p. 393. This is the date of the flood according to the Brahmin doctrines.
- ↑ Asiat. Res. Vol. IX. p. 86.
- ↑ According to some calculations, Augustus was born 63 years before Christ. (Asiat. Res. Vol. X. p. 33.) Then 5 Yugs or Neroses=3000+638+63=3701−3101=600. This evidently alludes to the second æra of Buddha, of 638 years after Christ, formerly noticed in Section 1.
- ↑ Asiat. Res. Vol. X. p. 122.
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