down.

_Restoration of the Chronology._

Kali II. Pradyota, five 138 years.
kings with
Kali III. Saisunaga, ten 360 years.
kings with
Kali IV. Nanda, father 22 years.
with eight or nine sons
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Kali V. Kandragupta king 317 B. C.
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837 years.

If one deducts these 837 years from 1182, the first year of the Kali age,
there remain 345 years for the twenty kings from Somapi to Ripun_g_aya
(First Dynasty), averaging 17-1/2 years. (That will do!) I adopt 1182
years, because 1354 is _impossible_, but 1181 is the historical
chronological beginning of a kingdom in Kashmir. Semiramis invaded India
under a _Sthavirapati_ (probably only a title), about 1250. This time must
therefore fall in the interregnum (120 years, after Megasthenes). The
history of the war with Assyria (Asura?) is smothered by pushing forward
the Abhira, that is, the Naval War on the Indus (Diodorus).

I pass over the approximate restoration of the first three periods. I have
given you a scanty abstract of my treatise, which I naturally only look
upon as a _frame-work_. But if the _frame-work_ be right, and of this I
feel convinced, if I have discovered the true grooves and the system--then
the unfalsified remains of traditions in the Vedas must afford further
confirmation. The Kali can be fixed for about 1150/1190 by powerful
synchronisms. The three earlier ages can be approximately restored. One
thus arrives, by adding 200 + 300 + 120 (=620) to each of the earlier and
thus separated periods, to the beginning of the Treta (foundation of the
_Bharata kingdom_ beginning with Puru). This leads to the following
computation.

I. Anarchy before Puru 200 years.
II. From Puru to 200 years.
Bharata's father, 10
reigns of 20 years
From Bharata to 120 years.
A_g_amidha's son, 6
reigns
End of II. 300 years.
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III. From Kuru to Bahlika 200 years.
(migration towards
Bactria?) 10 reigns
(Parikshit) apparently 120 years.
6-7 reigns
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End of the oldest Indian 1340 years.
kingdom, before Kali
1182 years.
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Beginning of Treta = 1100 years.
2522 B. C. (2234
Zoroaster invaded Babylon
from Media) Second
dynasties in Babylon
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