Brahma lives hundred years, but they are years of Brahma,
not human years.
One Kalpa coincides with one Day of Brahma's life, and when the night will come, this Universe will be reabsorbed
(Pralaya) in his divine sleep.
One Kalpa (Day or Night of Brahma) corresponds to 4.320.000.000 earthly years.
Indeed earthly time is divided in Yuga or Ages, which are:
| Krita (or Satya)-Yuga | 4.800 years |
| Treta-Yuga | 3.600 years |
| Dwapara-Yuga | 2.400 years |
| Kali-Yuga | 1.200 years |
| tot. | 12.000 years |
Each Yuga's lenght decrease progressively in relation to moral and physical decadence in each age.
Troughtout the Satya Yuga virtue prevails and evil is unknown; in the Treta Yuga virtue falls by
a fourth; in the Dwapara Yuga virtue has diminished by half; in the Kali Yuga, the current age, but a
fourth of virtue remains.
The four Yuga make one Mahayuga or Caturyuga.The Mahayuga's 12.000 years must be multiply
by 360, the days of the human year.
| 12.000 | x | 360 | = | 4.320.000 years |
Every Kalpa has 1000 cycles of four Yuga.
| 4.320.000 | x | 1.000 | = | 4.320.000.000 years |
Each Kalpa is divided into 14 Manvatara or periods, each lasting for 71 cicles of the four yuga (Mahayuga).
| 4.320.000 | x | 71 | x | 14 | = | 4.294.080.000 years |
The last six periods, necessary to have 1000 Mahayuga, are variously divided among the different Manvatara.
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