Some of the Hindus inform us that “the earth has _two spindles_ which are surrounded by _seven tiers of heavens and hells_ at the distance of _one Raju_ each.” This needs but little explanation when it is understood that the seven divisions from the equator to their zenith are called _Rishis_ or _Rashas_. But what is most to our present purpose to know is that they had given names to each of those divisions which the tropics passed over during each revolution of the Zodiac. In the latitude of 36 degrees where the Pole or Meru was nine steps high at Cassimere, they were called _Shastras_; in latitude 28 degrees at Delhi, where the Pole or Meru was seven steps high, they were called Menus; but in 24 degrees, at Cacha, where the Pole or Meru was but six steps high, they were called Sacas. But in the ninth volume (_Asiatic Researches_) Yudhister, the son of Dherma, or _Justice_, was the first of the six Sacas; the name implies the _end_, and as everything has two ends, Yudhister is as applicable to the first as to the last. And as the division on the north of the circle of perpetual apparition is the first of the Cali Yuga, supposing the tropics to be ascending, it was called the division or reign of Yudhister. But the division which immediately precedes the circle of perpetual apparition is the last of the third or _brazen age_, and was therefore called Yudhister, and as his reign preceded the reign of the other, as the tropic ascended to the Pole or Meru, he was called _the father_ of the other—“the great ancestor of Yudhister, who reigned _twenty‐seven thousand years, at the end_ of the brazen age.” (Vol. ii. _Asiatic Researches_.)