Hindu units of time | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 05/10/2019

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00:00:12 1 Time units
00:00:37 1.1 Sidereal metrics
00:00:46 1.1.1 Alternate system
00:00:55 1.1.2 Small units of time used in the Vedas
00:01:05 2 Lunar metrics
00:01:57 3 Tropical metrics
00:02:08 4 Reckoning of time among other entities
00:02:21 4.1 Among the Pitṛs (iforefathers/i)
00:02:47 4.2 Among the Devas
00:02:58 4.3 For Brahma
00:03:17 5 Four Yugas
00:03:26 6 Current date
00:03:48 6.1 Calculating the elapsed time since current Brahma's creation
00:04:16 7 See also
00:04:38 8 Notes
00:04:59 9 References
00:05:20 10 External links
00:05:39 4 Yugas (= 4,320,000 human years)
00:06:01 24,000 divine year
00:06:16 For Brahma
00:06:26 1 Kalpa
00:07:08 100 years of Brahma
00:07:19 1 Mahā-Kalpa (the lifespan of Brahma) (313,528,320,000,000 human years)One day of Brahma is divided into 10000 parts called charaṇas.
00:07:34 Four Yugas
00:09:11 994 Mahā-Yuga  +  (15 × 4800)
00:09:32 12,000 [deva years] viz. one maha yuga.
00:09:42 1,000 Mahā-Yuga.
00:09:47 Current date
00:09:57 Currently, 50 years of Brahma have elapsed. The last Kalpa at the end of the 50th year is called Padma Kalpa. We are currently in the first 'day' of the 51st year. This Brahma's day, Kalpa is named as Shveta-Varaha Kalpa. Within this Day, six Manvantaras have already elapsed and this is the seventh Manvantara, named as – Vaivasvatha Manvantara (or Sraddhadeva Manvantara). Within the Vaivasvatha Manvantara, 27 Mahayugas (4 Yugas together is a Mahayuga), and the Krita, Treta and Dwapara Yugas of the 28th Mahayuga have elapsed. This Kaliyuga is in the 28th Mahayuga. This Kaliyuga began in the year 3102 BCE in the proleptic Julian Calendar. Since 50 years of Brahma have already elapsed, this is the second Parardha, also called as Dvithiya Parardha.
00:10:50 Calculating the elapsed time since current Brahma's creation
00:11:02 432000 × 10 × 1000 × 2
00:11:25 3.1104 Trillion Years (1 year of Brahma)3.1104 × 1012 × 50
00:13:52 See also



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Hindu texts describe units of Kala measurements, from microseconds to Trillions of years. According to these texts, time is cyclic, which repeats itself forever.