Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c6.25

c6.25

The Bhâgavata Purâna agrees with the Vishnu Purâna in placing the Seven Rishis in Maghâ at the time of the Great War. Thus Suka, addressing Parikshita, says: "Of the Seven Rishis, two are first perceived rising in the sky; and the asterism, which is observed to be at night even with the middle of those two stars, is that with which the Rishis are united, and they remain so during a hundred years of men. In your time, and at this moment, they are situated in Maghâ."