The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c16.s1.21

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c16.s1.21

But Pusalkar⁴ has revived this Kali Era in a very ingenious way. Now he connects it with Manu, the ancestral founder of all the Hindu Royal families and the hero of the Indian "flood legend". Counting the traditional 95 generations between the Mahabharata battle and Manu, he arrives at 3110 B.C. for Manu. Then he jumps at this concidence with Woolley's calculations of the flood at Ur as at about 3000 B.C. and connects both these stories. It would neither be possible, nor proper, to go into the details of this speculation, but we close it with the two main objections:

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
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