ΤΟ The Honorable the Court of Directors OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, THIS WORK, THE FRUIT OF LONG AND LABORIOUS RESEARCH, IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY THEIR VERY OBEDIENT AND FAITHFUL SERVANT THE AUTHOR. TABLE OF CONTENTS. General introduction; Different opinions as to the true origin of the Stand- ards of Weights and Measures. Standards of Great Britain and France. the Linear measures of Hindoos and Mahomedans, Authorities for the foregoing statements.-Land measure;-Itinerary measure.— perficial Land Measure. - Dry Measures or Measures of Capacity. — Li- quid Measures. Solid, or Cubic Measures. Weights.- Money Weights. Lesser Weights. Gross Weights. - Jewellers Weights. Allowances, or Customary excess on Weight or Measure: Summary review Elementary Tables. — Luni-Solar Reckoning. - Lunar Reckoning. - Si- dereal Reckoning. Years, Months, Seasons; Cycles, Intercalations. Solar Tropical or Astronomical year.- Vague years. CHAPTER III. COMPARATIVE VIEW OF MODERN and An- CIENT STANDARDS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. General Summary of the Hindoo System.The Hustuh or Cubit, the general Standard for all Measures, Linear, Superficial, Solid, and of Capa- city; &c. thronghout India. The Indian Tables from original Sunskrit works-systematically arranged with approximate equivalent values in English inches.-The foregoing originals do not appear to have been im- mediately obtained from any scientific process or actual measurement of the earth in India. - The Standard of the Linear Measure deduced from the Hindoo Astronomical books identified with the Arabian, by means of which the connection is traced to the Chaldean, the Jewish, or Scripture Mea- sures, the Egyptian, the Roman, and the Greek. The true value of the Ancient Standards. Further comparison of the Modern and Ancient Indian Standard of Superficial measures, of Asiatic nations, of Modern and Ancient European Nations. The Indian Systems of Dry Measure and Weights compared with those of the various Asiatic nations, the Jews, Arabians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Europeans. The whole refer- red to the Jewish Standard, or Prototype of the Metrical Systems through- CHAPTER IV. OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE HINDOO CHRO- NOLOGY: AND A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ELEMENTS OR MEASURES OF TIME AS THEY ARE SET FORTH IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF THE BRAHMINS AND THE PRESENT USAGES OF INDIA, WITH THE SYSTEMS OF OTHER NATIONS The rule of eliciting the fundamental elements of all systems of Heathen Chronology explained. Three notable indications that the existing chrono- ogical and mythological systems of all the Oriental nations are of compara. -- - - - -- tively recent fabrication. The idea of a Divine Saviour, derived wholly - - - - |