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Kali Yuga (Sanskrit: कलियुग, romanized: kaliyuga or kali-yuga) means "the age of Kali", "the age of darkness", "the age of vice and misery", or "the age of quarrel and hypocrisy". A complete description of Kali Yuga is found in the Mahabharata, Manusmriti, Vishnu Smriti, and various Puranas.
Dec 11, 2023 · Kali Yuga is the age of quarrel and hypocrisy in the Vedic universal cycle. It started 5,000 years ago and will end in 427,000 years with the appearance of Kalki Avatara and the beginning of Satya Yuga.
Dec 11, 2023 · Kali Yuga is the last and most chaotic of the four yugas, or ages, in Vedic cosmology. It began with the departure of Krishna and will end with the appearance of Kalki, the final avatar of Vishnu.
The Age of Kali is a 1998 travel book by William Dalrymple. The book's theme is trouble in the Indian subcontinent and the Hindu belief in a time called the Kali Yuga when many problems will come to exist in the world.
- William Dalrymple
- 1998
- Satya Yuga. In Satya Yuga, human beings were adept in meditation and possessed unbelievable strength and longevity. The Vedic texts state that humans during Satya Yuga, or the Golden Age, lived for up to 100,000 years.
- Treta Yuga. In Treta Yuga, the Silver Age, human beings engage in nonviolent religious sacrifice as a means of propitiating the gods and ultimately pleasing the Supreme Person, Vishnu.
- Dvapara Yuga. Even before the beginning of Dvapara Yuga, by the end of Treta Yuga, human beings began to stray from the path of dharma, or the religious way of life.
- Kali Yuga. While Sri Krishna remained on the planet, Kali Yuga could not begin. The reason is that the presence of the Supreme Person keeps ignorance and irreligion at bay.
Duration and structure. Hindu texts describe four yugas (world ages) in a Yuga Cycle— Krita (Satya) Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga —where, starting in order from the first age, each yuga's length decreases by one-fourth (25%), giving proportions of 4:3:2:1.
Dec 21, 2023 · In Hinduism, Kali Yuga is the fourth and present age of the world cycle of yugas, or "ages." It's also the end of the four ages that comprise a cycle and is often referred to as the dark age. In Hindu belief, the Kali Yuga leads to destruction of the world and then the creation of a new cycle of the four yugas.
