The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c16.s1.19

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At one time, it was the fashion to talk of this 3139 B.C., as the "New sheet anchor of Indian chronology", as Dr. S. Trivedi put it, being the year of the Mahabharata battle. Since all the historical and genealogical accounts of the Puranas, called the "Kaliyuga raja vrittanta" (history of the kings of the Kali Age), began with Parikshit, the yeas 3102 B.C. was taken as the starting point.