[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Vishnupurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu) › 1.3.12 # Vishnupurana 1.3.12 Viṣṇupurāṇa 1.3.12 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.1.3.12) catvāri trīṇi dve caikaṃ kṛtādiṣu yathākramam divyābdānāṃ sahasrāṇi yugeṣv āhuḥ purāvidaḥ // > Oh best of sages, fifteen twinklings of the eye make a Kásht́há; thirty Kásht́hás, one Kalá; and thirty Kalás, one Muhúrtta. Thirty Muhúrttas constitute a day and night of mortals: thirty such days make a month, divided into two half-months: six months form an Ayana (the period of the sun's progress north or south of the ecliptic): and two Ayanas compose a year. The southern Ayana is a night, and the northern a day of the gods. Twelve thousand divine years, each composed of (three hundred and sixty) such days, constitute the period of the four Yugas, or ages. They are thus distributed: the Krita age has four thousand divine years; the Tretá three thousand; the Dwápara two thousand; and the Kali age one thousand: so those acquainted with antiquity have declared. The period that precedes a Yuga is called a Sandhyá, and it is of as many hundred years as there are thousands in the Yuga: and the period that follows a Yuga, termed the Sandhyánsa, is of similar duration. The interval between the Sandhyá and the Sandhyánsa is the Yuga, denominated Krita, Tretá, &c. The Krita, Tretá, Dwápara, and Kali, constitute a great age, or aggregate of four ages: a thousand such aggregates are a day of Brahmá, and fourteen Menus reign within that term. Hear the division of time which they measure. > — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition - [Previous: 1.3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.1.3.11) - [Next: 1.3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.1.3.13) - [Up: 1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.1.3) ## Translations (2) - [The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-wilson.1.3.4) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English - [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.1.3.p1) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English ## Other recensions (1) - [Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.1.3.12) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Narasiṃhapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.vaisnava.narasimha.2.12) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.1.3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.1.3.12) · Pramāṇa