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[9] [10] Lasting for 432,000 years (1,200 divine years), Kali Yuga began 5,126 years ago and has 426,874 years left as of 2025 CE. [11] [12] [13] Kali Yuga will end in the year 428,899 CE. [14] [b] Near the end of Kali Yuga, when virtues are at their worst, a cataclysm and a re-establishment of dharma occur to usher in the next cycle's Krita ...
Attempts have been made to assign a historical date to the Kurukshetra war, with research suggesting c. 1000 BCE. [14] However, popular tradition claims that the war marks the transition to the Kali Yuga, dating it to c. 3102 BCE. [17] The approximate extent of Āryāvarta during the late Vedic period (ca. 1100-500 BCE).
Dvapara: 12,960 (2 ratio or 1 × "great year"; 15 × 864) Kali: 6,480 (1 ratio or 0.5 × "great year"; 15 × 432) Guénon did not give a start date for Kali Yuga, but instead left clues in his description of the cataclysmic destruction of the Atlantean civilization.
The karmic action identified as the cause of the epidemic is … a neoliberal capitalist order driven by endless greed, desire, delusion in today’s aggressive and competitive world.” [7] In accordance with Hindu eschatology, the current epoch of humanity is the kali yuga. As a cycle characterized by widespread suffering, hypocrisy, and the ...
He is described as the incarnation who appears at the end of the Kali Yuga. He ends the darkest, degenerating, and chaotic stage of the Kali Yuga to remove adharma and ushers in the Satya Yuga, while riding a white horse with a fiery sword. [2] [18] He restarts a new cycle of time. [19] He is described as a Brahmin warrior in the Puranas.
Kalki is described as the final incarnation of Vishnu, who appears at the end of each Kali Yuga. He will be atop a white horse and his sword will be drawn, blazing like a comet. He appears when only chaos, evil and persecution prevails, dharma has vanished, and he ends the Kali Yuga to restart Satya Yuga and another cycle of existence. [41] [42]
He was born towards the end of the Dvapara Yuga. Hanuman: A great vanara devotee of Rama. [9] A brahmachari, he stands for selflessness, courage, devotion, intelligence, strength, and righteous conduct. Vibhishana: A brother of Ravana. A rakshasa, Vibhishana defected to Rama's side before the Lanka War owing to his devotion to dharma.
These dates are generally represented as number of days since the start of Kali Yuga. It is sometimes called kalidina sankhya . The Malayalam calendar known as kollavarsham (Malayalam: കൊല്ലവര്ഷം) was adopted in Kerala beginning from 825 CE , revamping some calendars.