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To these fifty-six reigns I should be willing to allow the average of…
Quote byJames Tod · 1782–1835
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Annals and antiquities of Rajast'han.
English (original)
To these fifty-six reigns I should be willing to allow the average of twenty years, which would give 1120 from Rama to Sumitra, who preceded by a short period Vikramaditya; and as 1100 have been already calculated to have preceded the era of Rama and Yudhishthira, the inference is, that 2200 years elapsed from Ikshwaku, the founder of the Solar line, to Sumitra.
— James Tod
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