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  2. Hindu units of time - Wikipedia

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    Hindu units of time are described in Hindu texts ranging from microseconds to trillions of years, ... translated 1.71 as 12,000 years in a four-aged period, ...

  3. Yuga cycle - Wikipedia

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    Joscelyn Godwin posits that it is probably from Hindu tradition that knowledge of the ages reached the Greeks and other Indo-European peoples. [69] Godwin adds that the number 432,000 (Kali Yuga's duration) occurring in four widely separated cultures (Hindu, Chaldean, Chinese, and Icelandic) has long been noticed. [70]

  4. Yuga - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Kalpa (time) - Wikipedia

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    In Hinduism, a kalpa is equal to 4.32 billion years, a "day of Brahma" (12-hour day proper) or one thousand mahayugas, [4] measuring the duration of the world. Each kalpa is divided into 14 manvantara periods, each lasting 71 Yuga Cycles (306,720,000 years).

  6. Satya Yuga - Wikipedia

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    Hindu units of time. Kalpa (day of Brahma) Manvantara (age of Manu) Pralaya (period of dissolution) Yuga Cycle (four yuga ages): Satya (Krita), Treta, Dvapara, and Kali; Itihasa (Hindu Tradition) List of numbers in Hindu scriptures; Vedic-Puranic chronology

  7. Hindu eschatology - Wikipedia

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    In Hinduism, time is cyclic, consisting of cycles or "kalpas". Each kalpa lasts for 4.32 billion years and is followed by a pralaya (dissolution) of equal length, which together make a period of one full day and night of Brahma's 100 360-day year lifespan, who lives for 311

  8. Kali Yuga - Wikipedia

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    The start date and time of Kali Yuga was at midnight (00:00) on 17/18 February 3102 BCE. [ 9 ] [ 22 ] [ 14 ] [ 23 ] [ 10 ] Astronomer and mathematician Aryabhata , who was born in 476 CE, finished his book Aryabhatiya in 499 CE, in which he wrote "When the three yugas (satyug, tretayug and dwaparyug) have elapsed and 60 x 60 (3,600) years of ...

  9. Epic-Puranic chronology - Wikipedia

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    The Epic-Puranic chronology is referred to by proponents of Indigenous Aryans to propose an earlier dating of the Vedic period, and the spread of Indo-European languages out of India, arguing that "the Indian civilization must be viewed as an unbroken tradition that goes back to the earliest period of the Sindhu-Sarasvati Valley traditions ...