warmer wetter watter
(852,000 divine years; 1 divine year = 360 solar years)
852 * 360 = 306720
Each manvantara lasts for 306,720,000 divine solar years
and repeats seventy-one Yuga Cycles (world ages).
A yuga, in Hinduism, is generally used to indicate an age of time.[1][2]
In the Rigveda, a yuga refers to generations, a period of time (whether long or short), or a yoke (joining of two things).[3] In the Mahabharata, the words yuga and kalpa (a day of Brahma) are used interchangeably to describe the cycle of creation and destruction.[4]
In post-Vedic texts, the words "yuga" and "age" commonly denote a catur-yuga (pronounced chatur yuga), a cycle of four world ages—for example, in the Surya Siddhanta and Bhagavad Gita (part of the Mahabharata)—unless expressly limited by the name of one of its minor ages: Krita (Satya) Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, or Kali Yuga.[1][5][a]
A Yuga Cycle is a cyclic age (epoch) in Hindu cosmology.
Each cycle lasts for 4,320,000 yrs (12,000 divine yrs X 360 Solar years 12X36=432)
432,000 is the radius of the sun in miles
and cycles through four yugas : Krita (Satya) Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga.[4]
As a Yuga Cycle progresses through the four yugas, each yuga's length and humanity's general moral and physical state within each yuga decrease by one-fourth.
Kali Yuga, which lasts for 432,000 years, is believed to have started in 3102 BCE.[5][6] Near the end of Kali Yuga, when virtues are at their worst, a cataclysm and a re-establishment of dharma occur to usher in the next cycle's Krita (Satya) Yuga, prophesied to occur by Kalki.[7]
There are 71 Yuga Cycles in a manvantara (age of Manu) and 1,000 Yuga Cycles in a kalpa (day of Brahma).[6]
In a kalpa (day of Brahma), which lasts for 4.32 billion years
(12 million divine years or 1,000 Yuga Cycles),
there are a total of fourteen manvantaras
(14 x 71 = 994 Yuga Cycles),
where each is followed by and the first preceded by a manvantara-sandhya (fifteen sandhyas) with each sandhya lasting for 1,728,000 years (4,800 divine years; the duration of Satya Yuga). During each manvantara-sandhya, the earth (Bhu-loka) is submerged in water.[5][7][8]
Each kalpa has 14 manvantaras and 15 manvantara-sandhyas in the following order:
- 1st manvantara-sandhya (a.k.a. adi sandhya)
- 1st manvantara
- 2nd manvantara-sandhya
- 2nd manvantara
- ...
- 14th manvantara-sandhya
- 14th manvantara
- 15th manvantara-sandhya
Manusmriti, Ch. 1:[9]
Surya Siddhanta, Ch. 1:[10]
Vishnu Purana, Part 1, Ch. 3:[11]
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