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yuga

Unit of the cosmic cycle in Hindu cosmology. Each yuga is progressively shorter than the preceding one, corresponding to a decline in the moral and physical state of humanity. Four such yugas make up a mahayuga; 2,000 mahayugas make up the basic cosmic cycle, the kalpa. The first yuga was an age of perfection that lasted 1,728,000 years. The fourth and most degenerate yuga began in 3102 BC and will last 432,000 years. At the close of this yuga, the world will be destroyed, to be recreated after a period of quiescence as the cycle resumes.



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According to the Hindu scriptures, Lord Rama performed Ashwamedha Yagna in the Treta Yuga (an era as per the Hindu scriptures) and the Pandavas in the Dwapara Yuga (the subsequent era).
NASAs Image reconfirming the insight into the ancient epic / holy book RAMAYANA, which was supposed to have taken place in Treta yuga (more than 1,700,000 years ago) refereeing to the Bridge built by Wanar Saina (transition phase Monkey like humans) refered as India Adam's Bridge by NASA.
Ostrakody sredneplejstotsenovykh otlozhenij Belorussii i yuga Litvy [Ostracods from Middle Pleistocene sediments of Byelorussia and southern Lithuania].
 
 
 
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