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7. Twice as many (or two thousand four hundred) are a Dvâpara (Yuga).
8. Thrice as many (or three thousand six hundred) are a Tretâ (Yuga).
9. Four times as many (or four thousand eight hundred) are a Krita Yuga.
10. (Thus) twelve thousand years make a Katuryuga (or period of four Yugas).
11. Seventy-one Katuryugas make a Manvantara (or period of a Manu).
12. A thousand Katuryugas make a Kalpa. 13. And that is a day of the forefather (Brahman). 14. His night also has an equal duration.
15. If so many such nights and days are put together that, reckoned by the month and by the year, they make up a period of a hundred years (of Brahman) it is called the age of one Brahman.
16. A day of Purusha (Vishnu) is equal in duration to the age of one Brahman.
17. When it ends, a Mahâkalpa is over. 18. The night following upon it is as long.
19. The days and nights of Purusha that have gone by are innumerable;
20. And so are those that will follow.
21. For Kâla (time) is without either beginning or end.
22. Thus it is, that in this Kâla (time), in whom there is nothing to rest upon, and who is everlasting, I can espy nothing created in which there is the least stability.
23. The sands in the Ganges and (the waters pouring down from the sky) when Indra sends rain
21. “Kâla means Vishnu in this place.' (Nand.)
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