yuga
युग yugaA world-age; the four yugas (Krita/Satya, Treta, Dvapara, Kali) of declining length and virtue make up one mahayuga.
Where this term appears
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
The cycles of time, the yugas , the four world-ages running from golden to broken.
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
…ब्रह्मणो विदुः । रात्रिं युगसहस्रान्तां तेऽहोरात्रविदो जनाः ॥ sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ rātriṃ yuga-sahasrāntāṃ te 'ho-rātra-vido janāḥ "Those who truly know the day and night of Brahmā kno…
- The Four Yugas: Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali Essentials
The Kali Yuga is the bottom of the cycle, the age the same texts describe as a slow collapse of everything that holds a world together.
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
Lagadha's answer is a wheel of five years, which he calls a yuga .
- Āgama and Veda: two revelations Lineages
This is the Kali Yuga , the last of the four ages, when human capacity has shrunk and the long, exacting Vedic disciplines no longer deliver their fruit.
- Dharma, Karma and Rebirth Essentials
There is yuga-dharma , the dharma proper to each cosmic age, asserted in the Manusmriti itself at 1.85, which states plainly that the duties of the first age are not those of the present one.
- Karma, bhakti and jnana: the three paths to moksha Essentials
Hindu cosmology divides time into four descending yugas , and holds that we are deep in the last and darkest of them, the Kali Yuga , an age of short lives, weak wills and scattered attention.
- The Char Dham Temples
It assigns each one an age of the world, a yuga : Badrinath to the Satya Yuga , Rameswaram to the Treta , Dwarka to the Dvapara , and Puri to the present Kali Yuga .