. . . 4,393 "
If we deduct from this sum 1,203, we have 3,190 years B.C. of successive
reigns. If it can be shown on the unimpeachable evidence of the
Sanskrit texts that some of the reigns happened simultaneously, and the
line cannot therefore be shown as successive (as was already tried),
well and good. Against an arbitrary chronology set up with a
predetermined purpose and theory in view, there will remain but little
to be said. But if this attempt at reconciliation of figures and the
surrounding circumstances are maintained simply upon "critical, internal
evidence," then, in the presence of these 3,190 years of an unbroken
line of powerful and mighty Hindu kings, the Orientalists will have to
show a very good reason why the authors of the Code of Manu seem
entirely ignorant even of the existence of Bengal--if its date has to be
accepted as not earlier than 1280 B.C.! A scientific rule which is good
enough to apply to the case of Panini ought to be valid in other
chronological speculations. Or, perhaps, this is one of those poor rules
which will not "work both ways?"
--A Chela
THEOSOPHICAL
What is Theosophy?
According to lexicographers, the term theosophia is composed of two
Greek words--theos "god," and sophas "wise.
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