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Matsyapurana 142.35

Matsyapurāṇa 142.35

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Sanskrit

142.35

eṣā caturyugākhyā tu sādhikā hyekasaptatiḥ
krameṇa parivṛttā sā manorantaramucyate //

Now I shall give you the duration of a Manvantara in the Divine years It is 140,000(?) years in course of which the four ages come and go 71 times when one Manu takes the place of another At the completion of the Kalpa which is 14 times one Manvantara, the great dissolution of the world takes place which lasts for a period twice as much as one Kalpa The age of the four yugas has been thus described—32 37

A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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