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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 ...
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
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 )
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).
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.