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  2. Manvantara - Wikipedia

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    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] (67) A year is a day and a night of the gods ... (79) The before ...

  3. Hindu units of time - Wikipedia

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    12 hours (1 day proper: kalpa) of Brahma = 4.32 billion solar years (1,000 chatur-yugas; 14 manvantaras + 15 manvantara-sandhyas) 24 hours (1 day & night: kalpa + pralaya) of Brahma = 8.64 billion solar years; 30 days (1 month) of Brahma = 259.2 billion solar years; 12 months (1 year) of Brahma = 3.1104 trillion solar years

  4. List of numbers in Hindu scriptures - Wikipedia

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    432,000 years [27] Duration of lifetime of human in Satya yuga: around 100,000 years. [28] Duration of lifetime of human in Tretā-yuga: around 10,000 years [29] Duration of lifetime of human in Dvāpara-yuga: around 1,000 years. [30] Duration of lifetime of human in Kali-yuga: around 100 years which will be reduced gradually to 20 years )

  5. Yuga cycle - Wikipedia

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    There are 14 manvantaras (4,294,080,000 years) in a kalpa with a remainder of 25,920,000 years assigned to 15 manvantara-sandhyas (junctures), each the length of a Satya Yuga (1,728,000 years). A kalpa is followed by a pralaya (night or partial dissolution) of equal length forming a full day (24-hour day).

  6. Kalpa (time) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Yuga - Wikipedia

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    According to the Manusmriti, a kalpa starts with a Satya Yuga (4,000 years), followed by a Treta Yuga (3,000 years), a Dvapara Yuga (2,000 years), and ends with a Kali Yuga (1,000 years). According to Vishnu Purana , each Mahayuga comprises a Satya Yuga (1,728,000 human years), a Treta Yuga (1,296,000 years), a Dvapara Yuga (864,000 years), and ...

  8. Swayambhuva Manu - Wikipedia

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    Swayambhuva Manu is one of the Manus mentioned in Hindu cosmology, and he is the first of the 14 Manus of the current Manvantara. Each Manvantara is a time period that lasts for 71.6 million years, and a new Manu governs each Manvantara.

  9. Hindu cosmology - Wikipedia

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    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.