History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.775.2

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538-546) that the number of years in Kaliyuga (432000) was suggested by these figures in the Śatapatha, that the high figures in the ancient Indian literature are scientific and not astrological, and that in the opinion of Heraclitus 10800 ordinary human years were equal to one 'great year', that Berossus held that a great astronomical period was of 432000 years and that as the Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa is far more ancient than both Heraclitus and Berossus, the borrowing, if it exists, must have been by the Greeks from India Vide 'Ancient relations between Indian and foreign astronomical systems' by Dr J Filliozat in JOR, Madras, vol. XXV (for 1957) pp 1-8; also Prof. Zinner (in 'Stars above us' p 59) for theories about the age of the world held by Plato and Berossus. One day of Brahmā is equal to a Kalpa i e 4320000 × 1000 i e 432,000,000,0 In order¹⁰⁸⁵ to find out the human years of the one hundred years of Brahmā's life we shall have to multiply 432,000,0000 by 2, then by 360 and then by 100. That is, the day and night of Brahmā come to 8640000000 human years; the year of Brahmā would then be equal to 311040000000 human years (taking 360 days as a year); one hundred years of Brahmā thus come to 311040000000000 years Alberuni (Sachau, vol.