Note 137 — The very remote Antiquity attributed to certain Nations is not supported by History.
Reading edition
The epoch which gave birth to the present age, Caliyug (the earthen age,) 4927 years before the present day, or 3200 years before Christ. See Legentil, Voyage aux Indes, t. i. p. 253.;—Bentley, Calcutta Memoirs, vol. viii. of the 8vo edition, p. 212. This period is only fifty-nine years farther back than the deluge of Noah, according to the Samaritan text.