A manvantara, in Hindu cosmology, is a cyclic period of time identifying the duration, reign, or age of a Manu, the progenitor of mankind. In each manvantara...
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Hindu units of time (section Current manvantara)
elapsed 7th manvantara + 7 manvantara-sandhyas + 6 manvantaras = elapsed 28th chatur-yuga + 27 chatur-yugas + 7 manvantara-sandhyas + 6 manvantaras = chatur-yuga...
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rishis in the next manvantara will be Diptimat, Galava, Parashurama, Kripa, Drauni or Ashwatthama, Vyasa, and Rishyasringa. A manvantara (age of Manu) is...
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Brahma. In the Hindu cosmology, each kalpa consists of fourteen Manvantaras, and each Manvantara is headed by a different Manu. The current universe, is asserted...
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(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). A Yuga...
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one of the Saptarishi (Seven great sages) in the first age of Manu, the Manvantara. The sage is said to have emerged from the ear of Brahma in the Bhagavata...
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cycle is presided over by a number of Manus, one for each manvantara, and each manvantara has a number of Yuga Cycles, each with four yuga ages of declining...
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the Saptarishi (Seven Vedic sages) in the 7th, and the current age of Manvantara. He is a descendant of the sage Bhrigu, one of the Prajapatis created...
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divinity.[citation needed] Hindu units of time Kalpa (day of Brahma) Manvantara (age of Manu) Pralaya (period of dissolution) Yuga Cycle (four yuga ages):...
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god, and also one of the Saptarshi (seven great sages), in the first Manvantara (age of Manu), with others being Marichi, Atri, Angiras, Kratu, Pulastya...
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