Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c6.51

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The mythologists, however, give a different explanation. According to them the Seven Rishis, having given offence to their teacher in the Satya-Yuga, were cursed by him and condemned to spend the remainder of their lives as antelopes, wandering from one Nakshatra to another every hundred years. Hence they were named the Sapta-Mriga, or “Seven Antelopes.” This name recalls the Septem Triones of the Romans. Some say that the Rishis were doomed to take the shapes of different animals every hundred years.