A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.2214

c5.2214

This elaborate and practically boundless system of chronology was invented between the age of the *Rig-veda* and that of the Mahā-bhārata. No traces of it are to be found in the hymns of the *Rig*, but it was fully established in the days of the great epic. In this work the four ages are described at length by Hanūmat, the learned monkey chief, and from that description the following account has been abridged:—