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→चतुर्युगाः ॥ Chaturyuga
# द्वापरयुगम् ॥ Dvaparayuga
# द्वापरयुगम् ॥ Dvaparayuga
# कलियुगम् ॥ Kaliyuga
# कलियुगम् ॥ Kaliyuga
It may be noted that the time period in four yugas are in the ratio of 4:3:2:1. One Mahayuga is ten times a Kaliyuga in its duration.
It may be noted that the time period in four yugas are in the ratio of 4:3:2:1. One Mahayuga is ten times a Kaliyuga in its duration. However, Aryabhata I, the ancient Indian mathematician, revised the duration of the four yugas in a mahayuga and made them of equal duration, viz., 10,80,000 instead of the traditional yuga scheme of 4:3:2:1.
==== Krta Yuga ====
==== Krta Yuga ====
==== Kali Yuga ====
==== Kali Yuga ====
The fourth and the last Yuga of a Chaturyuga cycle. The current Kaliyuga began with the ascendance of Srikrishna from the earth after the Mahabharata war more than 5,000 years ago. Indian astronomical texts fix the time and date of the onset of current Kaliyuga either at the midnight of February 17/18 or the sunrise of February 18 of 3102 BCE (Julian reckoning).
The fourth and the last Yuga of a Chaturyuga cycle. The current Kaliyuga began with the ascendance of Srikrishna from the earth after the Mahabharata war more than 5,000 years ago. Indian astronomical texts fix the time and date of the onset of current Kaliyuga either at the midnight of February 17/18 or the sunrise of February 18 of 3102 BCE (Julian reckoning). Further the mean midnight is as at Ujjaiyini (23<sup>o</sup> 11'N Latitude and 75<sup>o</sup> 46'E Longitude) meridian passing through Lanka on the equator according to the ardharatrika (midnight) system.<ref name=":0" />
=== कल्पम् ॥ Kalpa ===
=== कल्पम् ॥ Kalpa ===