Yuga
In Hindu Vedic and Puranic cosmology, a yuga is an extremely long time period, especially when measured on the human scale.
The Hindu conception of the yuga suggests that time itself differs for gods and humans.
In the Mahabharata an entire human year translates into a single day for the devas.
Each of the four different Yugas represent four general ages of the devas.
As with the ancient Greek and Hebraic sense of time, these ages progress from an initial, ideal Golden Age (Krita yuga) to increasingly corrupted ages.
The four Yugas and their human equivalents
are:
| Yuga | Deva Years | Human Years |
| Krita | 4800 | 1,728,000 |
| Treta | 3600 | 1,296,000 |
| Dvapara | 2400 | 864,000 |
| Kali | 1200 | 432,000 |
| Mahayuga (Great Yuga)* | 12,000 | 4,320,000 |
A single day for the god Brahma is 1,000 Mahayugas (4,320,000,000 human years). One year for Brahma is 1,555,200,000,000 human years. Brahma’s life span is 155,520,000,000,000 human years.
All this indicates that Brahma exists in an entirely different time frame than human beings.
An arguably mythical, quasi-scientific scheme like this may seem irrelevant to contemporary thinkers but it points to the notion, worth considering, that the universe contains different yet interacting regions of space-time, each region containing its own unique properties and beings. » Mahabharata, Puranas, Ragnarok, Veda
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*A Mahayuga (Great Yuga) is one complete cycle of the four Yugas.
Table condensed from Keith R. Crim (ed.) The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. New York: Harper & Row, 1989, pp. 818-819.
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Comment by Vidyardhi Nanduri — June 18, 2008 @ 9:18 am |
Your above Information:
A single day for the god Brahma is 1,000 Mahayugas (4,320,000,000 human years). One year for Brahma is 1,555,200,000,000 human years. Brahma’s life span is 155,520,000,000,000 human years.
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Comment by Vidyardhi Nanduri — June 18, 2008 @ 9:30 am |
Late SD Kulkarni edited a volume of work and mentions 10^17 Years as well.
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Thanks… I’d be surprised if there were no debate on this. Could you please, if possible, provide bibliographic info on the Kulkarni work you mention?
Comment by Earthpages.ca — June 18, 2008 @ 10:32 am |
Fascinating! The concept of time has always held a captive of my mind… to read on other interpretations and beliefs is a great and interesting venture…
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I have included in my books . All the above informationyou have mentioned is a copied part from the reference material, I have,Origin of the Universe-Problem of Indian Chronolgy- 1988 published by Late. SD Kulkarni -General Editor- with about 12 Scholars covering various aspects, that include Members from All India Philosophical Congress.
. You have to take 50 years of BRAHMA-already elapsed as a multiplier.
I have to retype information for you-Please wait.
Late Moparty Gopala Rao, Wisdom of Gods , has also worked out with a different perpsectve.
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Comment by Vidyardhi Nanduri — June 24, 2008 @ 5:07 am |
Thank you very much. The deeper I study the more I realize that a lot of the same information is just passed around with slightly different wording. Sometimes it is properly referenced and other times not. That’s why I like to make it unique by adding my own views, interacting with people like yourself, and so on.
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