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 Manu to its end) and at the end of it, 1,728,000 the whole number of the (solar) years of the, is called its ; and it is the time when a universal deluge happens.

. Fourteen such with their  (as mentioned before), constitute a, at the beginning of which is the fifteenth which contains as many years as a does.

. Thus a thousand of the great yucas make a, a period which destroys the whole world. It is a day of the God, and his night is equal to his day.

. And the age of consists of a hundred years—according to the enumeration of day and night (mentioned in the preceding ). One half of his age has elapsed, and this present is the first in the remaining half of his age.

. Out of this present six  with their, and twenty-seven  of the seventh Manu called  have passed away.

. Of the twenty-eighth great, the has passed away. Let (a calculator,) reckoning the time from the end of the compute the number of years passed.

. 47,400 years of the Gods have elapsed in the creation of the God, of animate and inanimate things, of the planets, stars, Gods, Demons, &c.

. Now the planets (such as the Sun) being on their orbits, go very rapidly and continually with the stars towards the west and hang down (from their places towards east) at an equal distance, (i. e. they describe equal spaces daily towards the east,) as if overpowered by the stars (by reason of their very rapid motion caused by the air called .)