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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
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 ...
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 ...
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.
[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.
10 times the length of the previous cosmological decade, with CD 1 beginning either 10 seconds or 10 years after the Big Bang, depending on the definition. eon: 10 9 yr: Also refers to an indefinite period of time, otherwise is 1 000 000 000 years. kalpa: 4.32 × 10 9 yr: Used in Hindu mythology. About 4 320 000 000 years. exasecond: 10 18 s ...
Lengths are given in divine years (years of the gods), each lasting for 360 solar (human) years. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Treta Yuga , the second age in a cycle, lasts for 1,296,000 years (3,600 divine years), where its main period lasts for 1,080,000 years (3,000 divine years) and its two twilights each lasts for 108,000 years (300 divine years).