The Indians, it is true ("Hales' Chron.," i. 196), themselves say that their history goes back 432,000,000 years. Although Hales gives a solution which may be deemed satisfactory, I think that, if considered in connection with the Babylonian computation, it will be seen that, though inexact in their figure, they are accurate in their tradition. _The primary figure in their (Indian) calculation_--432,000--_is arrived at through the extended multiplication_ of the Chaldean sossos, neros, and saros, _or of their own traditional figures_ corresponding to them (_vide infra_). In the Chaldean system (_vide_ Rawlinson, "Anc. Mon.," i.), 6 and 10 were employed as alternate multipliers. Thus a "soss" = 60 years (10 × 6), a "ner" = 600 (60 × 10), a "sar" = 3600 (600 × 6); and if the multiplication be continued, the next figure would be 36,000 (3600 × 10), next 216,000 (36,000 × 6). _The Indian figure 432,000,[49] is made up of twice 216,000._ [49] 432,000 is also the figure to which Berosus extends the Assyrian chronology. Thus the Indian fabrication commences at the point where Berosus ends. Professor Rawlinson ("Anc. Mon.," i. 192) gives in detail, and endorses a remarkable _eclaircissement_ of M. Gutschmid on the mythical traditions of Assyrian chronology. _Babylonian Chronology._--Rawlinson says-- "Assuming that the division between the earlier and later Assyrian dynasty synchronises with the celebrated era of Nabonassar (747 B.C.), which is probable, but not certain, and taking the year B.C. 538 as the admitted date of the conquest of the last Chaldæan king by Cyrus, he obtains for the seventh or second Assyrian dynasty 122 years (747 to 625). Assuming, next, that B.C. 2234, from which the Babylonians counted their stellar observations, must be a year of note in Chaldæan history, and finding that it cannot well represent the first year of the second or Median dynasty, since in that case eleven kings of the third dynasty would have reigned no more than thirty-four years, he concludes it must mark the expulsion of the Medes and accession of the third dynasty (which he regards as a native dynasty). From his previous calculations, it follows that the fourth dynasty began B.C. 1976; between which and B.C. 2234 are 258 years, a period which may be fairly assigned to eleven monarchs. This much is conjecture ... _the proof now suddenly flashes on us_. If the numbers are taken in the way assigned, and then added to the years of the first or purely mythical dynasty, we get 36,000, equal to the next term, to the sar (saros, _vide supra_), in the Babylonian system of cycles." It will be more apparent in the following table from Rawlinson, _idem_--