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[5] Now, 6 manus and 27 yugas had elapsed from the Kalpa to the war; i. e. ( 6x288+273x4) 1839 years had passed from the Kalpa, to the War. Thus we can fix the beginning of the Kalpa as exactly (1839+1263-) 3102 B C, From this we can see that Kalpádi () was misin. terpreted by later astronomers into Kalyadi (f) and that the date 3102 B. C. is really that of the beginning of the Kalpa and not that of the Kali Yuga. 1 ..: 5 The first Solar king Ikshwáku came into India and 1 22.0 established his capital at Ayodhyâ in about 2000 B. C. The first Lunar king established his capital at Pratisthina or Prayag, in about 2200 B. C. It was a thousand years from the beginning of the Lunar dynasty to the coronation of Janamejaya. ("See texts quoted in pp. 276-77). Many events of the date Kalpa1000 are recorded in the Puranas. 201 Tot 1 About the possible validity of the Indian date 3102 B. C., Prof. Fergusson writes in his History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, (APP.A. p. 711): " "Though it may not at present be capable of direct proof, I have myself no doubt about the date assigned by the Hindus for the Kali yuga (3101 B. C.) is a true date, though misapplied, either it was the date when the Aryans assumed their ancestors had first crossed the Indus or the date when they had first settled on the banks of the ad or the atar. It forms no part of any system subse- quently invented and seems to be the only ore fixed point in a sea of falsification." We can now dee that 3102 B. C. is the date of the beginning of Kalpa and not of the Kali.