There are 14 Manus altogether, entrusted with the universe during his Manvantara.įirst Manvantara, The Interval of Swayambhuva Manu Already six Manvantaras has elapsed and we are now in the 7th Vaivaswata Manvantara. On his 1st day called Padma-Kalpa, the present time Measurement started. This also equals to 1000 Chaturyugas, if you also include the periods of inaction (probably time also stops then), after one manvantara is over and the next one starts.Ĭurrent Brahma is 50 years old. This is a day of Brahma, whose life span is 100 Brahma years. Thus one Chaturyuga equals 4,320,000 years.ħ1 Chaturyuga – 1 Manvantara (306,720,000 years)ġ4 Manvantara makes 1 Kalpa (4.32 Billion years) Kaliyuga has one Charana, Dwapara two, Treta three and Kritayuga 4 charanas. (Of course there are smaller units, but as there is no specific way to measure, we may ignore them).Ģ Ayana – 1 year (1 human year is 1 Deva day) The time of closing & opening of eyelids is a Nimisha, and is the smallest unit of time of the ancient Indians. Time Measurement as per Hindu Scriptures:įirst, the kaala-chakra or measurement of time.
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