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  2. Kalki Purana - Wikipedia

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    The Kalki Purana (Sanskrit: कल्किपुराण, romanized: Kalkipurāṇa) is a Vaishnava Hindu text about the tenth avatar of Vishnu named Kalki. [1] The Sanskrit text was likely composed in Bengal during an era when the region was being ruled by the Bengal Sultanate or the Mughal Empire. Wendy Doniger dates it to sometime between ...

  3. Kalki - Wikipedia

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    Statue of Kalki's incarnation on a wall of Rani Ki Vav (The Queen's Stepwell) at Patan, Gujarat, India. A minor text named Kalki Purana is a relatively recent text, likely composed in Bengal. Its dating floruit is the 18th-century. [21] Wendy Doniger dates the Kalki Mythology containing Kalki Purana to between 1500 and 1700 CE. [22]

  4. Koka and Vikoka - Wikipedia

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    The prophecy of Kalki and his battle with Kali appears in the Kalki Purana, a collection of predictions concerning when, where and why Kalki will manifest himself and what he will do. [2] According to Hindu cosmology the world will experience four long ages, or yugas, of which the Kali Yuga is the last in a cycle. [5]

  5. Kali (demon) - Wikipedia

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    The Kalki Purana says that this asura (demon) chose gambling, liquor, prostitution, slaughter and illicitly obtained gold as his permanent abodes. [3] The Sanskrit-English Dictionary states Kali is "of a class of mythic beings (related to the Gandharvas , and supposed by some to be fond of gambling)". [ 4 ]

  6. Ved Prakash Upadhyay - Wikipedia

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    "There is a section for this Purana (Bhavishya Purana) called Kalki Purana, which touched upon Kalki Avatar, (Avatar that comes in the Kali time, or the last time) and what came in this Purana was the reality of Muhammad only, when one of their scholars (Ved Prakash Upaddhay) admitted that there is no Kalki Avatar except Muhammad and he ...

  7. Hindu eschatology - Wikipedia

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    Hindu eschatology is linked to the figure of Kalki, or the tenth and last avatar of Vishnu before the age draws to a close, and Harihara simultaneously dissolves and regenerates the universe. The current period is believed by Hindus to be the Kali Yuga , the last of four Yuga that make up the current age.

  8. Sambhal - Wikipedia

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    Shahi Jama Masjid at Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh (1789). Pencil and wash drawing. British Library, London [8]. Sambhal is sometimes identified as Shambhala, a village which is mentioned as the birthplace of Kalki, the next incarnation of Vishnu, in the Hindu Puranas (the city is also home to a "Shri Kalki Vishnu Mandir").

  9. Hindu mythological wars - Wikipedia

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    Kalki, the final Avatar of Vishnu is also prophesied to appear the end of the Kali Yuga, to wage the final battle between good and evil bringing end of the world and start of new world. [ 11 ] Shiva Nataraja , the Destroyer, kills the paramount demon of Ego and performs the Tandava Nritya ( The Dance of Tandava ) on his back, ending with the ...