[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Histoire de la dernière révolution des États du Grand Mogol](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier) › [Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable) › 6.8.7 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 6.8.7 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 6.8.7 - **Language:** English ### [6.8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.6.8.7) and the fourth, called the Kale-Dgugue, is to continue I forget how many lecques of years. The first three, they said, and much of the fourth, are passed away, and the world will not endure so many ages as it has done, because it is destined to perish at the termination of the fourth Dgugue, when all things will return to their first principles. Having pressed the Pendets to tell me the exact age of the world, they tried their arithmetical skill over and over again ; but finding that they were sadly perplexed, and even at variance as to the number of lecques, I satisfied myself with the general information that the world is astonishingly old. Whenever any of these learned Brahmens is urged to state the facts on which he grounds his belief of this vast antiquity, he entertains the inquirer with a set of ridiculous fables, and finishes by asserting that it is so stated in their Beths, or Books of the Laws, which have been given to them by Brahma. - [Previous: 6.8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.6.8.6) - [Next: 6.9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.6.9.1) - [Up: 6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.6.8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.6.8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.6.8.7) · Pramāṇa