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Kali ahargaṇa ( Kali ahargaṇa number or Kalidina ) is an integer associated with a civil day. The integer represents the number of civil days in a collection of consecutive days beginning with a special day called the kali epoch and ending with a specified day. [1] Kali ahargaṇa is one of the basic parameters of Indian astronomy and it is ...
The start date and time of Kali Yuga was at midnight (00:00) on 17/18 February 3102 BCE. [ 9 ] [ 22 ] [ 14 ] [ 23 ] [ 10 ] Astronomer and mathematician Aryabhata , who was born in 476 CE, finished his book Aryabhatiya in 499 CE, in which he wrote "When the three yugas (satyug, tretayug and dwaparyug) have elapsed and 60 x 60 (3,600) years of ...
A kalpa is followed by a pralaya (night or partial dissolution) of equal length forming a full day (24-hour day). A maha-kalpa (life of Brahma) lasts for 100 360-day years of Brahma, which lasts for 72,000,000 Yuga Cycles (311.04 trillion years) and is followed by a maha-pralaya (full dissolution) of equal length.
Kali (/ ˈ k ɑː l iː /; Sanskrit: काली, IAST: Kālī), also called Kalika, is a major goddess in Hinduism, primarily associated with time, death and destruction.The origins of Kali can be traced to the pre-Vedic and Vedic era Goddess worship traditions in Ancient India. [1]
The Kalki Purana describes him as a huge wbeing, the color of soot, with a large tongue, and a terrible stench.From his birth, he carried an Upasthi (worship) bone. The Kalki Purana says that this asura (demon) chose gambling, liquor, prostitution, slaughter and illicitly obtained gold as his permanent abodes. [3]
Hindu units of time are described in Hindu texts ranging from microseconds to trillions of years, including cycles of cosmic time that repeat general events in Hindu cosmology. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Time (kāla) is described as eternal. [ 3 ] Various fragments of time are described in the Vedas, Manusmriti, Bhagavata Purana, Vishnu Purana, Mahabharata ...
Aryabhata ( ISO: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I[3][4] (476–550 CE) [5][6] was the first of the major mathematician - astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the Āryabhaṭīya (which mentions that in 3600 Kali Yuga, 499 CE, he was 23 years old) [7] and the Arya- siddhanta.
v. t. e. Hindu astrology, also called Indian astrology, Jyotisha (Sanskrit: ज्योतिष, romanized: jyotiṣa; from jyót 'light, heavenly body') and, more recently, Vedic astrology, is the traditional Hindu system of astrology. It is one of the six auxiliary disciplines in Hinduism that is connected with the study of the Vedas.