yuga

• New souls are born out of the void, but infrequently, especially at this point in the cycle, for we are in the Kali-yuga, the Age of Destruction. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Each maha-yuga or Great Age is divided into four ages, Sarya-yuga, the age of peace, Treta-yuga, Dvaparayuga and Kali-yuga, said to be our current age, an age of decline and despair, awaiting renewal. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Now the Maha-yuga consisteth of four parts, of which the last, being called the Kali-Yuga, is the least, having but four-hundred-and-thirty-two thousand years. —  OM: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
• The length of a Maya-yuga is four million and three hundred twenty thousand years; that is, one thousandth part of a Day of Brahma. —  OM: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
• These figures at once recall the Indian Maha-yuga of 4,320,000 years = 432,000 x 10. —  Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

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