History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.771

v6.c82.771

1081a चत्वारि भारते वर्षे युगानि मुनयो विदुः । कृतं त्रेता द्वापरं च तिष्यं चेति चतुर्युगम् ॥ वायु० 24 1, 45 137 (reads कवयो for मुनयो and कलिश्चेति चतुष्टयम् ), 57. 22, मत्स्य 142 17-18 'चत्वारि भारते वर्षे युगानि ऋषयोऽब्रुवन् । कृतं त्रेता द्वापरं च कलिश्चैवं चतुर्युगम् ॥ पूर्व कृतयुगं नाम ततस्त्रेताभिधीयते । द्वापरं च कलिश्चैव युगानि परिकल्पयेत् ॥' Vide ब्रह्मा 27. 64. Tradition gave slightly varying information about the end of the Dvāpara age It is said that the war between the Kaurava and Pāṇḍava hosts was fought in the period of sandhyā between Dvāpara and Kali (Ādi 2.13) Similarly, शल्य 60 25 (प्राप्तं कलियुगं विद्धि), वनपर्व 149 38 say that Kaliyuga was very near when the Bhārata war was about to be fought (एतत्कलियुगं नामाचिराद्यत्प्रवर्तते). On the other hand, many of the Purāṇas say that Kaliyuga began the very day Kṛṣṇa finished his avatāra and went to heaven; वायु 99 428-29, ब्रह्माण्ड III 74 241, मत्स्य 273 49-50, विष्णु IV. 24 110, भागवत XII 2 33, ब्रह्म 212 8 has the same idea in different words. Vide note 993 for quotations from some of these Purāṇas The Mausala-parva 1 13 and 2 20 state that Kṛṣṇa passed away 36 years after the Bhārata war In any case द्वापर came to an end immediately or a few years after the Bhārata war.