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Satya Yuga (a.k.a. Krita Yuga) (IAST: Kṛta-yuga), in Hinduism, is the first and best of the four yugas (world ages) in a Yuga Cycle, preceded by Kali Yuga of the previous cycle and followed by Treta Yuga.
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 .
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]
The Bhagavata Purana [3.11.18-20] (c. 500-1000 CE) gives a matching description of the yuga lengths in divine years. The Kali Yuga is the present yuga. According to Puranic sources, Krishna's departure marks the end of Dvapara Yuga and the start of Kali Yuga, [note 1] which is dated to 17/18 February 3102 BCE, [5] [6] twenty years after the ...
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 ...
Each kalpa has 1,000 and each manvantara has 71 chatur-yugas (epoch, a.k.a. maha-yuga), with each chatur-yuga lasting for 4.32 million years and divided into four yugas (dharmic ages): Satya Yuga (1,728,000 years), Treta Yuga (1,296,000 years), Dvapara Yuga (864,000 years), and Kali Yuga (432,000 years), of which we are currently in Kali Yuga.