THE AGE OF UNIVERSE AS PER ANCIENT HINDU SCRIPTURES

     Hindu scriptures have given the technique of the measuring the time. 

      At that time there were various units of measuring time period:

                1Krati = 34,000th of a second

                The time taken to tear apart the softest petals of a lotus is called TRUTI

                100 Trutis = 1 Lub

                30 Lub = 1 Nimesh

                27 Nimesh = 1 Guru Akshar

                10 Guru Akshar = 1 Pran

                6 pran Vighatika = 1 Ghatika or Dand

                60 Ghati = 1 day and night

                That means, in a day and night, there are 17,49,60,000,00 Trutis

                Hence, according to science, there are 86,400 seconds in a day and night, whereas in Hindu mythology, a day and night consists of 17,49,60,000,00 Trutis.

                As per another system, the division of time is

                1 day or 24 hours = 60 Ghatis

                1 Ghati = 60 Vighati (also called Pala or Kala)

                1 Vighati = 60 Lipta or (also called Vipala or Vikala)

                1 Lipta = 60 Vilipta

                1 Vilipta = 60 Para

                1 Para = 60 Tatpara

                As a lot of charts made in the ancient period  mention the birth time in Ghatis and Vighatis the   following is the conversion to remember:

                5 Ghatis = 2 hours

                5 Vighati = 2 minutes

                Another system of time measurement was:

              60 Tatparas = 1 Paras

                60 Paras = 1 Vilipta

                60 Vilipta = 1 Lipta

                60 Lipta = 1 Ghatika (Dand)

                60 Ghatika = 1 Day & Night)

                

              That means, it is clear that there are 46,65,60,000,00 Tatparas in a day and night.

                Therefore calculations of yugas are as follows:

                SATYUGA 4,32,000 YEARS x4 = 17,28,000 YEARS

                TRETA 4,32,000 YEARS x3 = 12,96,000 YEARS

                DWAPAR 4,32,000 YEARS x2 = 8,64,000 YEARS

                KALIYUGA 4,32,000 YEARS x1 = 4,32,000 YEARS

                1 MAHAYUGA (GRAND TOTAL OF ALL THE YUGAAS) = 4,320,000 YEARS

                71 MAHAYUGA = 43,20,000 x71 = 1 MANVANTAR

                1 MANVANTAR = 30,6720,000 YEARS

                14 MANVANTAR = 4,294,080,000 YEARS

According to our ancient Hindu scriptures, Brahma, the creator, creates and destroys the universe cyclically. The life of Brahma is 120 divine years called Mahakalpa. Every day he creates 14 Manus one by one and they create and control the world. So there are fourteen Manus in one divine day called Kalpa of Brahma. The life of each Manu is called Manvantara and it has 71 eras of four quarters. Each quarter is has four yugas - Krita or Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali.

                There are 14 Manvantars.

“The earth remains submerged in the water for the period of 8,64,000 years i.e. half the number of Satyuga, before the start and after the completion of each Manvantar”

So in

14 Manvantars the number of years:

             17,28,000x15 = 2,59,20,000

                Number of year in Satyuga

                + 14 Manvantar = 42,9, 40,80,000

                1 Kalpa = 4320,000,000 years

                One day & night of Brahma = 4,320,000 Mahayugax100 = 4,320,00,000 years

                Since the one moment in the life of Brahma is considered to be of our 100years, therefore the life of Brahma in 100 years will be

                4,32,00,00,000x360x100 = 1,555,200,000,000 years

                The Present Age of Universe according to the Hindu System is as follows:

                There are 14 Manvantaras totally. The present period is passing through the seventh Manvantara called Vaivaswata Manvantara.

                One Manvantara consists of 71 Mahayugas, out of which 27 Mahayugas have already passed. We are passing through the first phase of the Kali yuga which itself is the third yuga of the 28th Mahayuga and which has come after the passing of Satyuga, Treta and Dwapar yuga.

                The time period of Manvantara (exclusive period, when the earth is submerged in water, in the beginning and in the end) = 306,720,000 years

                Multiplying these years by 6 = 30,67,20,000x6 (Because we are in the midst of 7th Manvantara, of the Svetvaaraah Kalpa and 6 Manvantaras have already passed) = 1,8,0,300,000 years

                The time period of Pralaya consists of 17,28,000 years since 7 Pralayas have passed, after the end of 6th Kalpa and before the beginning of 7th Kalpa, so 17,28,000x 7 = 12,096,000 years

                Adding we have:

                1,840,300,000 + 120 96 000 + 1,852,396,000 years

                Therefore, after 1,85,24,16,000 years VAIVASVAT MANVANTARA has started.

                27 Mahayugas with each Mahayuga consisting of 43,20,000 years. 43,20,000x27 = 116,640,000 years have passed

                Total = 1,96,90,56,000 years

                3) Now the time period of Kali yuga in the 28th yuga =

                Time period of Satyuga = 17,28,000

                Time period of Treta = 12,96,000

                Time period of Dwapar = 8,64,000

                TOTAL = 38,88,000

                Since all the above three yugas have already passed, it means that after 38,88,000 years, Kali yuga came into existence.

                Kali yuga started on Bhadrapada, Krishnapaksha -13th day, in Vyatipaat yoga at midnight, in the Aashlesha Nakshatra and the age of the Kali yuga has been fixed as 5101 years as till date that is Vikram Samvat 2057 = Shaka 1922 = 2000 AD.

                Sum of all the three yugas = the Sum of 27 Mahayugas and Manvantar + the time period of Kali yuga till date.

             

   Kalpa consist of 4,32,00,00,000 years and out of these 1,97,29,49,101 years have passed. Therefore, the earth&; s existence, according to the calculations devised by our ancient sages, comes up to 1,97,29,49,101 years till date. It is interesting to note that according to scientific calculations, the age of the universe is estimated between 15 and 20 billion years.