A dice game is described in the Rigveda, Atharvaveda, Upanishads, Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Puranas, while the four yugas are described after the four Vedas with no mention of a correlation to dice. It is believed that the four yugas- Krita ( Satya), Treta, Dvapara, and Kali-are named after throws of an Indian game of long dice, marked with 4-3-2-1 respectively. It is theorized that the concept of the four yugas originated some time after the compilation of the four Vedas, but prior to the rest of the Hindu texts, based on the concept's absence in the former writings. Yuga Cycle ( Sanskrit: युग, lit.'age') + (English: cycle):Ī cyclic age encompassing the four yuga ages. Maha Yuga ( Sanskrit: महायुग, romanized: mahāyuga or mahā-yuga, lit.'a great age'): A greater cyclic age encompassing the smaller four yuga ages. The Hindu texts give a length of 12,000 divine years, where a divine year lasts for 360 solar (human) years. ĭaiva Yuga ( Sanskrit: दैवयुग, romanized: daivayuga or daiva-yuga, lit.'a divine or celestial age an age of the gods'), ĭeva Yuga ( Sanskrit: देवयुग, romanized: devayuga or deva-yuga, lit.'an age of the gods'), ĭivya Yuga ( Sanskrit: दिव्य युग, romanized: divyayuga or divya-yuga, lit.'a divine or celestial age'): A cyclic age of the divine, celestrial, or gods ( Devas) encompassing the four yuga ages ( a.k.a. Ĭhatur Yuga ( Sanskrit: चतुर्युग, romanized: caturyuga, catur-yuga, chaturyuga, or chatur-yuga, lit.' catur means four a set of the four ages'): A cyclic age encompassing the four yuga ages as defined in Hindu texts: Surya Siddhanta, Manusmriti, and Bhagavata Purana. Its archaic spelling is yug, with other forms of yugam, yugānāṃ, and yuge, derived from yuj ( Sanskrit: युज्, lit.'to join or yoke'), believed derived from *yeug- ( Proto-Indo-European: lit. 'Age' and ' Yuga', sometimes with reverential capitalization, commonly denote a ' catur-yuga', a cycle of four world ages, unless expressly limited by the name of one of its minor ages (e.g. Lexicology Īge or Yuga ( Sanskrit: युग, lit.'an age of the gods'): There are 71 Yuga Cycles in a manvantara (age of Manu) and 1,000 Yuga Cycles in a kalpa (day of Brahma). Near the end of Kali Yuga, when virtues are at their worst, a cataclysm and a re-establishment of dharma occur to usher in the next cycle's Krita (Satya) Yuga, prophesied to occur by Kalki. Kali Yuga, which lasts for 432,000 years, is believed to have started in 3102 BCE. Īs a Yuga Cycle progresses through the four yugas, each yuga's length and humanity's general moral and physical state within each yuga decrease by one-fourth. Each cycle lasts for 4,320,000 years (12,000 divine years ) and repeats four yugas (world ages): Krita (Satya) Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga.

chatur yuga, maha yuga, etc.) is a cyclic age ( epoch) in Hindu cosmology. It is not to be confused with Buddhist ages, Greek ages, or Jain ages.Ī Yuga Cycle ( a.k.a.

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