1. "The Greek Ambassodor Magasthenis has recorded that 138 generations
have passed between Krishna and Chandragupta Maurya. Many scholars have
taken this evidence, but taking only 20 years per generation they fixed
the date of Krishna as 2760 years before Chandragupta. But this is wrong
because the record is not of ordinary people to take 20 years per generation.
In the matter of general public, one says that when a son is born a new
generation starts. But in the case of kings, the name is included in the
list of Royal Dynasty only after his corona- tion to the throne. Hence,
one cannot allot 20 years to one king. We have to find out the average
per king by calculating on various Indian Dynasties. I have considered
60 kings from various dynasties and calculated the average of each king
as 35 years. Here is a list of some of important kings with the no. of
years ruling.

      Chandragupta Mourya      330-298 B.C.     32 years.
      Bindusar                 298-273 B.C.     25 years.
      Ashok                    273-232 B.C.     41 years.
      Pushyamitra Shunga       190-149 B.C.     41 years.
      Chandragupta Gupta       308-330 A.D.     22 years.
      Samudragupta             330-375 A.D.     45 years.
      Vikramaditya             375-414 A.D.     39 years.
      Kumargupta               414-455 A.D.     41 years.
      Harsha                   606-647 A.D.     41 years.
                                                ---------
                                                327 years.

      The average is 327/9 = 36.3 years.

Multiplying 138 generations by 35 years we get 4830 years before Chan-
dragupta Mourya. Adding Chandrgupta's date 320 B.C. to 4830 we get 5150
B.C. as the date of Lord Krishna.

2. Megasthenis, according to Arian, has written that between Sandro-
cotus to Dianisaum 153 generations and 6042 years passed. From this data,
we get the average of 39.5 years per king. From this we can cal- culate
5451 years for 138 generations. So Krishna must have been around 5771 B.C.

3. Pliny gives 154 generations and 6451 years between Bacchus and Alexander.
This Bacchus may be the famous Bakasura who was killed by Bhimasena. This
period comes to about 6771 years B.C.

Thus Mahabharat period ranges from 5000 B.C. to 6000 B.C.