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Krita Yuga (Sanskrit: कृतयुग, romanized: kṛtayuga, kritayuga, kṛta-yuga, or krita-yuga), a synonym for Satya Yuga, means "the accomplished or completed age" or "the age of righteous or action", a time when people perform pious (righteous) actions, and is sometimes referred to as the "Golden Age".
The history of humanity is divided up into four yugas (a.k.a. dharmic ages or world ages)— Kṛta-yuga (pronounced Krita-yuga; a.k.a. Satya-yuga), Tretā-yuga, Dvāpara-yuga and Kali-yuga—each with a 25% decline in dharmic practices and length, giving proportions (caraṇas; pronounced charanas) of 4:3:2:1 (e.g. Satya: 100% start; Kali: 25% ...
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 (a.k.a. chatur yuga, maha yuga, etc.) is a cyclic age in Hindu cosmology. Each cycle lasts for 4,320,000 years (12,000 divine years [ a ] ) and repeats four yugas (world ages): Krita (Satya) Yuga , Treta Yuga , Dvapara Yuga , and Kali Yuga .
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When the sun and moon, the lunar constellation Pushya, and the planet Jupiter are all in one mansion, the Krita age shall return to the earth. — Hooper, 1508 [ 2 ] At the completion of Kali Yuga , the next Yuga Cycle (epoch) will begin, Satya Yuga , in which everyone will be righteous with the reestablishment of dharma and piety.
Each kalpa is divided into 14 manvantara periods, each lasting 71 Yuga Cycles (306,720,000 years). Preceding the first and following each manvantara period is a juncture (sandhya) equal to the length of a Satya Yuga (1,728,000 years). [5] A kalpa is followed by a pralaya (dissolution) of equal length, which together constitute a day and night ...
Yuga: Mantra: Satya Yuga: narayana para veda narayana paraksara narayana para muktir narayana-para gatih Treta Yuga: rama narayanananta mukunda madhusudana krsna kesava kamsare hare vaikuntha vamana Dvapara Yuga: hare murare madhu-kaitabhare gopala govinda mukunda saure yajnesa narayana krsna visnos nirasrayam mam jagadisa raksa Kali Yuga