Krita Yuga

[krit-uh yoog-uh]

noun

Hinduism.

1. Satya Yuga.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Krita Yuga¹

From the Sanskrit word kṛtayuga

Example Sentences

The Krita Yuga is composed of 400 divine ascending years, 4,000 divine years of a principal year and 400 divine years of expiration.�

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The shortest Indian Yuga is the Babylonian 120 saroi multiplied by 10=1200 divine years for the Kali Yuga; twice that number gives the Dvapara Yuga of 2400 divine years; then the Treta Yuga is 2400 + 1200 = 3600 divine years, and Krita Yuga 3600 + 1200 = 4800 divine years.

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The duties set down for the Krita yuga are of one kind.

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It is altogether too savage an appellation for a city whose purity was established in the "Krita Yuga," and whose fame is coeval with that of the great protagonists of Hindu myth and epic.

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