The Yuga Purana is a Sanskrit text and the last chapter of a Jyotisha (astrology) text Vriddhagargiya Samhita. It is also considered a minor text in the...

Kali Yuga, in Hinduism, is the fourth, shortest and worst of the four yugas (world ages) in a Yuga Cycle, preceded by Dvapara Yuga and followed by the...

four yugas (world ages): Krita (Satya) Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga. As a Yuga Cycle progresses through the four yugas, each yuga's length...

"catur-yuga". A kalpa is described as lasting 1,000 catur-yuga in Bhagavata Purana 12.4.2 ("catur-yuga") and Bhagavad Gita 8.17 ("yuga"). "Yuga". Dictionary...

epoch of Satya Yuga in the cycle of existence, until the Mahapralaya (dissolution of the universe). Kalki is described in the Puranas as the avatar who...

The Kalki Purana (Sanskrit: कल्किपुराण, romanized: Kalkipurāṇa) is a Vaishnava Hindu text about the tenth avatar of Vishnu named Kalki. The Sanskrit text...

215–202 BCE. He was the successor and son of Samprati Maurya. While the Yuga Purana section of the Gargi Samhita mentions him as a quarrelsome, unrighteous...

Yuga and followed by Kali Yuga. Dvapara Yuga lasts for 864,000 years (2,400 divine years). According to the Puranas, this yuga ended when Krishna returned...

Yuga (a.k.a. Krita Yuga) (IAST: Kṛta-yuga), in Hinduism, is the first and best of the four yugas (world ages) in a Yuga Cycle, preceded by Kali Yuga of...

down, all the realm will be in disorder — Yuga Purana, Paragraph 47–48, 2002 edition) However, the Yuga Purana indicates that the Yavanas (Indo-Greeks)...

down, all the realm will be in disorder. — Yuga Purana, Paragraph 47–48, quoted in Mitchener, The Yuga Purana, 2002 edition Accounts of battles between...

He fights barbarian armies and kills demons in the Kali Yuga, according to Ganesha Purana. Greg M. Bailey, who has published a scholarly review and...

Solar dynasty. The Puranas provide the idea of Yugas, and the Dashavatara, the ten incarnations of Vishnu in the four respective Yuga's. According to the...

into four yugas (a.k.a. dharmic ages or world ages)—Kṛta-yuga (pronounced Krita-yuga; a.k.a. Satya-yuga), Tretā-yuga, Dvāpara-yuga and Kali-yuga—each with...

Demetrius). The hypothesized Yavana invasion of Pataliputra is based in the Yuga Purana. The scripture describes the campaign of King Dharmamita: Then, having...

The Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit: भागवतपुराण; IAST: Bhāgavata Purāṇa), also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam), Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana...

manvantara has a number of Yuga Cycles, each with four yuga ages of declining virtues. The Dvapara Yuga is the third yuga. The Vishnu Purana (Book 3, Ch 3) says:...

Treta Yuga (IAST: Tretā-yuga), in Hinduism, is the second and second-best of the four yugas (world ages) in a Yuga Cycle, preceded by Krita (Satya) Yuga and...

understand that Kali Yuga has taken his revenge on me. How shall I escape this grievous sin?" The beginning of the Kalki Purana describes Kali's lineage...

(1986). The Yuga Purāṇa (1st ed.). Kolkata: The Asiatic Society. p. 71. ISBN 978-93-81574-56-0. Mitchiner, John E. (1986). The Yuga Purāṇa (1st ed.). Kolkata:...

—Vishnu Purana, 6.7 The last book of the Vishnu Purana is the shortest, with 8 chapters. The first part of the sixth book asserts that Kali Yuga is vicious...

earliest mentions of cosmic cycles in Sanskrit literature are found in the Yuga Purana (c. 1st century BCE), the Mahabharata (c. 3rd century BCE – 4th century...

during the Treta Yuga, and according to some traditions, as Balarama, brother of Vishnu's incarnation Krishna during the Dvapara Yuga. According to the...

These four yugas have a length ratio of 4:3:2:1. The Bhagavata Purana [3.11.18-20] (c. 500-1000 CE) gives a matching description of the yuga lengths in...

have appeared except one; Kalki, who will appear at the end of the Kali Yuga. The order of the ancient concept of Dashavataras has also been interpreted...

"Aśoka and the decline of the Mauryas" Romila Thaper (London 1961). "The Yuga Purana", John E. Mitchiner, Kolkata, The Asiatic Society, 2002, ISBN 81-7236-124-6...

These four yugas have a length ratio of 4:3:2:1. The Bhagavata Purana [3.11.18-20] (c. 500-1000 CE) gives a matching description of the yuga lengths in...

Bṛihaddharma Purāṇa Gaṇeśa Purāṇa Mudgala Purāṇa Kālki Purāṇa Ṣivarahasya Purāṇa Kriyāyogasāra Purāṇa Yuga Purāṇa Lakṣmi Purāṇa Bhaviśyottara Purāṇa Devānga...

who comes at the end of every Dvapara Yuga to divide and compile the one Veda into four and compile the Puranas and Mahabharata for the benefit of mankind...

chieftain of Gokulam, and the sister of Rohini. According to the Bhagavata Purana, Krishna was born to Devaki, but Krishna's father, Vasudeva, brought the...