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³⁹ R. Guénon, ‘L’Ésotérisme de Dante’, 2nd ed., p. 81. 25920 is the number of solar years in the Pythagorean Great year. R. Guénon, ‘Some remarks on the Doctrine of Cosmic Cycles’, JISOA, Vol. V, p. 21 f. “The principal base of cyclical periods in the cosmical order is the astronomical period of the precession of the equinoxes, the duration of which is 25920.” The period of the precession of the equinoxes × 1000 is the number of years which must be added to 71 times the number of years contained in the 4 yugas × 14. (‘Viṣṇupurāṇa’, I, ch. III). 4,320,000,000 years is a day of Brahmā (see Part II, note 38). But a day of Brahmā is also 71 times a Mahāyuga multiplied by 14 : 4,320,000 × 71 × 14 = 4,294,080,000, or less than the preceding by 25,920,000. (Wilson, ‘Viṣṇupurāṇa’, l.c. Vol. I, p. 51, note 2).