Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c6.43

c6.43

The following is a translation of the reply which I received from the Brahmans of Kangra in A.D. 1859 regarding the *Sapt-Rishi-Kâl* :— "At the beginning of the Kâli-Yuga, the Seven Rishis (or Stars of Ursa Major) had been 75 years in one Nakshatra (Maghâ), and they remained in the same for 25 years longer. These 25 years are the amount of difference between the total number of Kâli-Yuga years elapsed and the number of centuries or years of the Hill cycle [*Pahâri Samvat*] up to the present date. Thus the present year, 1859 of the Christian era, is Kâli-Yuga 4960, and 35 of the 50th Hill cycle, or exactly 25 years short of the number of Kâli-Yuga years."