Yuga cycle

A Yuga Cycle chatur yuga, maha yuga, etc.) is a cyclic age (epoch) in Hindu cosmology. Quotes about A hundred to you, ten thousand years, two Yugas, three Yugas, four we make. Atharva Veda VIII.2.21 The Aitareya Brāhmana (VII.15.4), describing the merits of exertion, has the picturesque phrases: "A man while lying is the Kali; moving himself he is the Dvāpara; rising, he is the Tretā; walking, he becomes the Krita.'" quoted in K. D. Sethna, Ancient India in a New Light, 1990 The waning strength and stability of Dharma in the four yugas is graphically depicted by representing it as a majestic bull which stood firm on its four legs in the golden age of the world (krtayuga) and lost one of its legs to [ either of] the succeeding two yugas, Tretā and Dvāpara, to stand tottering on a single leg during the present kaliyuga. C. S. Venkateswaran, about yugas in the Purana, quoted in K. D. Sethna, Ancient India in a New Light, 1990 In the great philosophy of Brahma, such violent turns of the scale are quite unknown. It embraces vast stretches of time, cycles of human ages, whose successive lives gravitate in concentric circles, and travel ever slowly towards the center.... Romain Rolland, Life of Ramakrishna (1929) The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the cosmos itself undergoes an immense and indeed an infinite number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond […] to those of modern scientific cosmology. Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. New York: Random House, 1980. quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189 External links Category:astronomy Category:Time Category:Hinduism