[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883) › c6.51 # Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c6.51 Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c6.51 - **Language:** English ### [c6.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c6.51) 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. - [Previous: c6.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c6.50) - [Next: c6.52](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c6.52) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c6.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c6.51) · Pramāṇa