kalpa:

An age. See yuga.

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Age(s). See HESIODIC AGES; YUGAS; AEONS

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Black Age. See KALI YUGA

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Four Ages. See YUGA; HESIODIC AGES

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Sandhyamsa (Sanskrit). A period following a Yuga.

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Kalpa:

Kalpa. An age. See Yuga.

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Maruth:

Maruth (Maruttha). Wealthy king, who lived in the Kritha-yuga.

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Kali-purusha:

Kali-purusha. Personification of the kali-yuga, the evil age.

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Kalki:

Kalki. Tenth Avatar of Vishnu during the Kali-yuga.

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Bronze Age. See HESIOD, AGES OF; DVAPARA YUGA

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Channa-avatara:

Channa-avatara: covered, not directly; name of the covert incarnations of Krishna in Kali-yuga: this as opposed to His tri-yuga status; Krishna as his own devotee: Son, Prophet, sannyasi. [Caitanya Mahaprabhu]

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Ramanuja (-acharya)

The founding acharya of one of the four Vaishnava sampradayas in Kali-yuga

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Silver In Greek and Roman mythology, a racial or age division in the Hesiodic cycle of gold, silver, bronze, and iron, corresponding in the Hindu yugas to the treta yuga. This metal was regarded as standing next to gold in importance.

The quicksilver of Paracelsus was not the mercury of familiar knowledge alone, but also the living spirit of silver. Silver in astrological symbolism corresponds to the moon.

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Brahma:

The name of the highest demigod in this creation. He is born on a lotus flower, which sprouts from the navel of Lord Vishnu. He has four heads. During his day, the creation exists, and during his night it is absorbed within him. His day lasts for 1,000 chatur yugas, or 1,000 cycles of four periods: Satya yuga, Treta yuga, Dvapara yuga and Kali yuga.

As a demigod, he rules over some of the nakshatras as well as some of the shastiamshas used in vedic astrology. He is beholden only to Vishnu, Sada Shiva and Krishna. All other demigods in this creation are under Brahma, including such great personalities and demigods as Indra, Agni, Surya, Chandra, etc. The incarnations of the lord who appear on earth of his own sweet will are above Brahma. This includes Shri Krishna, Shri Ramachandra, Shri Narasimha, and Shri Chaitanya to name a few.

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Aranyaparva:

Aranyaparva (Aaranyaparva). First section of the third book of the Mahadhundhumara; contains predictions of the Kali-yuga.

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Mahayuga:

Mahayuga: Period of four yuga's, called: Satya, Treta, Dvapara, Kali, together lasting 4.32 million years or 1/1000 day of Brahma.

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Sandhya periods:

Sandhya periods: Each yuga has 200, 400, 600, or 800 contact periods. (BV-34)

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Mahayuga (Sanskrit) [from maha great + yuga age, period of time]

Great age; in Hindu works, the 1000th part of a kalpa or Day of Brahma. The aggregate of the series of four yugas -- satya or krita yuga, treta yuga, dvapara yuga, and kali yuga -- constitute a mahayuga or an age whose duration is 4,320,000 terrestrial years. Seventy-one mahayugas form the reign of one manu, or 306,720,000 years. Taking the reign of one manu, or of a manvantara, and multiplying it by 14 (which represents the 14 manus who exist in one kalpa) gives 4,294,080,000 years. To this figure should be added the sandhyas (dawn) and sandhyansas (twilight) -- 25,920,000 (there being a dawn and twilight between each manu), and the result is 4,320,000,000 years, or a Day of Brahma, which is one kalpa or 1000 mahayugas.

As used in theosophy, the progress of the life-wave through the globes of a planetary chain, from its first globe to its last, the life-wave passing through a series of seven smaller yugas or root-races upon each of the seven manifest globes of the planetary chain. The period comprises 4,320,000,000 years. Mahayuga frequently refers also to time periods less than that of the great cycle or chain-round above alluded to. For instance, the period of the seven root-races which form the passage of the life-wave through any one of the globes, is often called a mahayuga.

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Saka (Sanskrit). According to the Orientalists the same as the classical Sace. It is during the reign of their King Yudishtira that the Kali Yuga began.

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Idwatsara (Sanskrit). One of the five periods that form the Yuga. This cycle is pre-eminently the Vedic cycle, which is taken as the basis of calculation for larger cycles.

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Rudra-sampradaya

One of the four authorized Vaishnava schools. It was founded originally by Lord Siva and reestablished in the Kali-yuga by Sri Vishnu Svami.

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KALPA

A day of Brahma. 4,320,000,000 years long, divided unequally into 4 ages. Satya Yuga was the first age (Golden Age).

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