Yuga cycle

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A yuga cycle (a.k.a. chatur yuga, maha yuga, etc.) is a cyclic age (epoch) in Hindu cosmology. 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. As 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. Kali Yuga, which lasts for 432,000 years, is believed to have started in 3102 BCE. Near the end of Kali Yuga, when virtues are at their worst, a cataclysm and a reestablishment of dharma occur to usher in the next cycle's Krita (Satya) Yuga, prophesied to occur by Kalki. There are 71 yuga cycles in a manvantara (age of Manu) and 1,000 yuga cycles in a kalpa (day of Brahma).

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