Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s1.11
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s1.11
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c6.s1.11
Other tables received from South India had one thing in common. Their ‘epoch’ coincides with the era of *Kaliyuga*, that is, with the beginning of the year 3102 B.C. Prof Playfair begins by enquiring whether the ‘epoch’ was real or fictitious; that is, whether the planetary positions at that time were actually observed or were merely calculated back from the ‘epochs’ of more modern tables to coincide with a mythical *Kaliyuga*.