YAYATI, fifth king, of the Lunar race, was son of Nahusha. His wife Devayani was the mother of Yadtt. who founded the Yadava line, and his wife Sannislitha bore Purn, who founded the Paurava line. His other three sous were Druhyu, Turvasn, and Amt. The Mahabharata, Vishnu Padina, and Harivansa Puranas all tell of his senility, and exchanging it with the youthful vigour of Porn, to whom he ag,ain restored it, and inade him his successor. Colonel \\Ilford in his Essays (As. Res. ix. pp. 91, 92) quotes a legend of Yayati dividing his empire among his five sons. To Puru, the youngest, he gave India, the middle part ; to Yadu, the ancestor of Krishna, he gave the south or Dekhan ; the north to Anu, and the west to Turvasu. The offspring of 'Purvasu, ztccording to the Harivansa, settled in the south, and the tenth generation from him inclusive, con sisting. of four brothers—Pandya, Kerala, Chola, and Kola—divided the empire they inherited. Kola lived in the northern part of the Peninsula, and his descendants are called Kol or Koler to this day, and from thein India was called Kolaria. —Dalton, Ea. B. p. 161.
YE Alt.
San, ARAB., HIND., PERS. Annus, . . . .
An, Ann6e, • . . . FR. Ano, Se Jahr, . . . . GER. Varsha, . . . . TAM.
Barna, Sal, . . . Illsn. Sainuttrartun, . . TEL. .An no, A year, as reckoned by Muliammadans, means the lunar year. Christians reckon the y..trs of the Christian cm from the birth of Jesus Christ, and call the Annus Domini, or year of the Lord, the year of Christ Muliammadans reckon their 1Iijira year from the date of the hijira or flight of Mahoined from Mecca. The Hindus of India use the lunar year, with an intercalary month. They have various eras. The Hindu sidereal year, according to the Surya Siddhanta, is 365 (lays 6 hours 12 minutes 36.56 seconds. or 1•000045286 solar years, and is measured by the return of the sun to the same point in the zodiac, the beginning of the sign Mesha. Each month contains as many days as the sun continues in each sign, the civil only differing from the astronomical reckoning in rejecting fractions of a day. The eivil.year and mouth begin at sunrise instead of the instant of the suit's entrance into the respective signs. If
the fractions exceed half a day, the civil year or month begins with the sunrise following. The months vary in length with tile angular motion.
Tho year of Chrlit 1867 corresponded to the year G580 of the Julian period.
2G1'2-13 of tho Olympiads, or the 3d year of the Gelst commenced July 1367.
2614 from tho era of Naborntssar, which dates from Wednesday, 2Gth February 3'.167 Julian period, or 747 B.C.
2620 from tho foundation of Rome, according to Varro.
From the Creation, 5371 according to the . Hebrew text ; 6172 according to the Sam aritan ; 7501 according to the Septuagint. From the Deluge, 4215 according to the Hebrew text ; 4865 according to the Sam aritan ; 5113 according to the Septuagint.
496S of the Kriliyug, 1789 of the Sakti, and 1'274 of the Bengali San ; the sidereal account these three commenced Friday, 12th April.
1042-43 of the cycle of Parasu-Rarna, which begina 15th September.
192:3-24 of the (luni-solar) ern of Vikramaditya, called Samvat, whereof the 1924th Meru year com menced on Friday, 5th April, and the Gujerat, Dekhan, and /Conklin 1924th year on 24th August.
1738-89 of the Saka. era of Salivahana, of which the 1789th year commenced on the 5th April.
1236-37 of the Parsee era of Yezdejird, of which the 1237th year of tho Kadimi commenced 24th August, and of the Basami on the Md, September.
1283-84 of the Ilijira or Muhammadan era, the year 1294 commencing on Gth May.
1276-77 of the Fasli cra, beginning 6th June.
1267-68 of the Shabur San, or Senna Sitain-Miatin-o alf, commencing on Gth June.
of tho modern Jewish era, of which the year 5628 commenced on 30th September 1867.
The year 1867 was the 1st year of the 22d cycle of Grahaparivritthi ; the 1st of the 84th cycle of Vrihaspati, according, to the Tamil account ; and 13th of the 85th cycle, according to the Beng,a1 account It was tho year 2410 of the Buddhist era of India, Ceylon, Siam, etc.; and 1228 of the Burmese Vulgar era; and the 4th year of Chinese 77th cycle of 60 years, which begins about 14th February.
liamadhan (the month of abstinence observed by the Muhammadans) commenced 8th January 1867 ; it is a moveable feast.