Time reckoning - VP

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Dear Sepp,

 

I chanced upon some material from Vishnu Purana as

below ...if you havent known it already ... I think

this is in line with a query of yours raised some time

back to the group ..

 

Hope useful ..

 

'One and seventy enumerations of the four ages, with a

surplus.' A similar reading occurs in several other

Puránìas, but none of them state of what the surplus

or addition consists; but it is, in fact, the number

of years required to reconcile two computations of the

Kalpa. The most simple, and probably the original

calculation of a Kalpa, is its being 1000 great ages,

or ages of the gods: ### Bhavishya P. Then 4.320.000

years, or a divine age, x 1000 = 4320.000.000 years,

or a day or night of Brahmá,. But a day of Brahmá is

also seventy-one times a great age multiplied by

fourteen: 4.320.000 x 71 x 14= 4.294.080.000, or less

than the preceding by 25.920.000; and it is to make up

for this deficiency that a certain number of years

must be added to the computation by Manwantaras.

According to the Súrya Siddhánta, as cited by Mr.

Davis (A. R. 2. 231), this addition consists of a

Sandhi to each Manwantara, equal to the Satya age, or

5.728.000 years; and one similar Sandhi at the

commencement of the Kalpa: thus p. 25 4.320.000 x 71 =

306.720.000 + 1.728.000 = 308.448.000 x 14 =

4318.272.000 + 1.728.000 = 4320.000.000. The

Pauranics, however, omit the Sandhi of the Kalpa, and

add the whole compensation to the Manwantaras. The

amount of this in whole numbers is 1.851.428 in each

Manwantara, or 4.320.000 x 71= 306.720.000 + 1.851.428

= 308.571.428 x 14 = 4319.999.992; leaving a very

small inferiority to the result of the calculation of

a Kalpa by a thousand great ages. To provide for this

deficiency, indeed, very minute subdivisions are

admitted into the calculation; and the commentator on

our text says, that the additional years, if of gods,

are 5142 years, 10 months, 8 days, 4 watches, 2

Muhúrttas, 8 Kalás, 17 Káshtìhás, 2 Nimeshas, and

1/7th; if of mortals, 1.851.428 years, 6 months, 24

days, 12 Náris, 12 Kalás, 25 Káshtìhas, and 10

Nimeshas. It will be observed, that in the Kalpa we

have the regular descending series 4, 3, 2, with

cyphers multiplied ad libitum.

 

Regards

 

Bejoy C.S.

www.keraladarsan.com

 

 

 

 

 

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sorry, i cant find any reasonable sense in this juggling with figures.

sepp

 

Am 16.12.2007 um 15:24 schrieb Bejoy:

 

> Dear Sepp,

>

> I chanced upon some material from Vishnu Purana as

> below ...if you havent known it already ... I think

> this is in line with a query of yours raised some time

> back to the group ..

>

> Hope useful ..

>

> 'One and seventy enumerations of the four ages, with a

> surplus.' A similar reading occurs in several other

> Puránìas, but none of them state of what the surplus

> or addition consists; but it is, in fact, the number

> of years required to reconcile two computations of the

> Kalpa. The most simple, and probably the original

> calculation of a Kalpa, is its being 1000 great ages,

> or ages of the gods: ### Bhavishya P. Then 4.320.000

> years, or a divine age, x 1000 = 4320.000.000 years,

> or a day or night of Brahmá,. But a day of Brahmá is

> also seventy-one times a great age multiplied by

> fourteen: 4.320.000 x 71 x 14= 4.294.080.000, or less

> than the preceding by 25.920.000; and it is to make up

> for this deficiency that a certain number of years

> must be added to the computation by Manwantaras.

> According to the Súrya Siddhánta, as cited by Mr.

> Davis (A. R. 2. 231), this addition consists of a

> Sandhi to each Manwantara, equal to the Satya age, or

> 5.728.000 years; and one similar Sandhi at the

> commencement of the Kalpa: thus p. 25 4.320.000 x 71 =

> 306.720.000 + 1.728.000 = 308.448.000 x 14 =

> 4318.272.000 + 1.728.000 = 4320.000.000. The

> Pauranics, however, omit the Sandhi of the Kalpa, and

> add the whole compensation to the Manwantaras. The

> amount of this in whole numbers is 1.851.428 in each

> Manwantara, or 4.320.000 x 71= 306.720.000 + 1.851.428

> = 308.571.428 x 14 = 4319.999.992; leaving a very

> small inferiority to the result of the calculation of

> a Kalpa by a thousand great ages. To provide for this

> deficiency, indeed, very minute subdivisions are

> admitted into the calculation; and the commentator on

> our text says, that the additional years, if of gods,

> are 5142 years, 10 months, 8 days, 4 watches, 2

> Muhúrttas, 8 Kalás, 17 Káshtìhás, 2 Nimeshas, and

> 1/7th; if of mortals, 1.851.428 years, 6 months, 24

> days, 12 Náris, 12 Kalás, 25 Káshtìhas, and 10

> Nimeshas. It will be observed, that in the Kalpa we

> have the regular descending series 4, 3, 2, with

> cyphers multiplied ad libitum.

>

> Regards

>

> Bejoy C.S.

> www.keraladarsan.com

>

> ________

> Never miss a thing. Make your home page.

> http://www./r/hs

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