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DIFFERENCES IN COMPUTATION
420
t liat
the Hindu computation wives to corroborate the
accuracy of the event as narrated by Moses, and adds
incontestable evidence to prove that most important event,
the Universal Deluge.
Some modern chronologists, with the learned Tournemine
at their head, who based their calculations on the Vulgate,
have professed to reckon between the Deluge and the
Christian era a period of 3,234 years, and they have sup-
ported their calculations with substantial arguments. Their
learned investigations in this direction excited even in
those days the admiration of competent critics.
In relying,
therefore, on this calculation, we have a difference of only
132 years between the Hindu computation and that of Holy
Scripture as regards the Deluge.
Deucalion's Flood does not approach so near the Uni-
versal Deluge of Scripture as the Jala-pralayam of the
Hindus. All the critics place the former so near the Birth
of Jesus Christ that its comparative modernness alone is
quite sufficient to prove that it has not even been borrowed
from other ancient nations. The Flood of Ogyges, the
occurrence of which is generally placed in the year 248
before that of Deucalion, is, however, posterior by more
than twelve hundred years to the Universal Deluge, accord-
ing to the Hindu calculations of the Jala-pralayam.
We
have, therefore, fresh evidence that the Flood of Ogyges
and that of Deucalion were only partial inundations, if
indeed they are not altogether mythical.
CHAPTEK XXV
The Epistolary Style
of the
Brahmins.
— Hindu
Handwriting.
The epistolary style of the Brahmins and of Hindus in
general is in many respects so different from ours that
a few specimens may be not uninteresting to many of my
readers.
Letter to
an
Inferior.
They, the Brahmin Soobayah, to him the
is
graced with
all
Brahmin
kinds of good qualities, who
the virtues, who is true to his word, who.
Lakshmana, who possesses
all