Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c17.s2.t2.57

v1.c17.s2.t2.57

Thus, taking an average of the whole, we may consider fifty-five princes to be the number of descents from Budha to Krishna and Yudhishthira ; and, admitting an average of twenty years for each reign, a period of eleven hundred years ; which being added to a like period calculated from thence to Vikramaditya, who reigned fifty-six years before Christ, I venture to place the establishment in India Proper of these two grand races, distinctively called those of Surya and Chandra, at about 2256 years before the Christian era ; at which period, though somewhat later, the Egyptian, Chinese, and Assyrian monarchies are generally stated to have been established,¹ and about a century and a half after that great event, the Flood.