The following figures are from the calendar just referred to; a foot-note marks the points of disagreement with the figures of the Ârya Samâj school:
I. From the beginning of Cosmic Evolution,[145] up to the Hindû year Tarana (or 1887), 1,955,884,687 years.
II. The (astral), mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms up to Man, have taken to evolve, 300,000,000 years.[146]
III. Time, from the first appearance of “Humanity” (on our Planetary Chain), 1,664,500,987 years.[147]
IV. The number that elapsed since the Vaivasvata, Manvantara[148]—or the Human Period—up to the year 1887, is just 18,618,728 years.
V. The full period of one Manvantara is 308,448,000 years.
VI. Fourteen Manvantaras, plus the period of one Satya Yuga make one Day of Brahmâ, or a complete Manvantara, or 4,320,000,000 years.
Therefore a Mahâ Yuga consists of 4,320,000 years.[149]
The year 1887 is from the commencement of Kali Yuga, 4,989 years.
To make this still clearer in its details, the following computations by Rao Bahadur P. Sreenivas Row, are given from the Theosophist of November, 1885.