History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.785

v6.c82.785

Pessimistic and dismal accounts of what will happen in Kaliyuga (which extends according to the Purāṇas over 432000 years and of which only about 5057 years have gone by this time in 1956) are set forth in the Vanaparva, chap 188, 190, Śāntiparva 69. 80-97, the Harivaṁśa (Bhaviṣyaparva, chap. 3-5 ff), Brahmapurāṇa chap 229-230, Vāyu chap. 58 and 99 verses 391-428, Matsya 144 32-47, Kūrma I. 30, Viṣṇupurāṇa VI 1, Bhāgavata XII. 1-2, Brahmāṇḍa II. 31 and in several other purānas. The description in Vanaparva 188 is summarised in H. of Dh. vol. III pp. 893-895. The names of 33 Kalpas are given in Vāyu, chap 21-23 and Hemādri on Kāla (pp. 670-671) sets out from Nāgarakhaṇḍa the names of 33 Kalpas and the tithis on which they start; Matsya 290 enumerates thirty names of Kalpas; the Brahmāṇḍa II. 31. 119 states that there are 35 Kalpas and neither more nor less.