The Brihaddharma Purana (abridged)
by Syama Charan Banerji | 1915 | 50,976 words
The English translation of the Brihaddharma Purana, one of the several minor or Upa Puranas, and represents an epitome of several important (Major) Puranas. In this book one can observe the attempts made to reconcile the three main forms of Hindu worship, viz. the Shaiva Vaishnava and Tantrika (worship of God in the form of Kali, Durga, Ganga, and ...
Chapter 53 - On the divine year and the Yugas—Length of Brahma’s day
A human year is equal to a divine day and night, so that three hundred and sixty human years are equal to a divine year.
It takes twelve thousand divine years to complete one course of the four Yugas, and one thousand such courses complete one day and night of Brahma, the morning, evening, and the period of twilight occupying twenty-eight more courses.
A Manvantara falls after seventy-one courses of the four Yugas, and this is the period for which one Indra’s rule lasts; so that fourteen Indras come and go in one day of Brahma.
The four Yugas are the Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali. The Kali Yuga lasts one thousand divine years, the morning, evening and twilight occupying one hundred years more. The Treta Yuga is twice as long as the Kali Yuga and Dvapara thrice as long, Satya Yuga covers the remaining six thousand years.
God incarnates himself in every Manvantara to extirminate Daityas and establish Dharma, and protect the gods by doing so.