Turning the wheel of time…
Turning the wheel of time…
The thin teal marks are the sandhyās — twilight junctions between Manus, each as long as a Satya-yuga. Hover a wedge for its ruler; click to descend.
One day of Brahma — 1,000 chatur-yugas, or 14 manvantaras with their junctions: 4.32 billion human years. At its close the naimittika pralaya falls, and Brahma's night, of equal length, follows. The present kalpa is the Shveta-Varaha.
The bright half of Brahmā’s day-and-night — a day of creation through which fourteen Manus rise and pass. The present day is the Śveta-Vārāha kalpa.
If this whole 4.32-billion-year day were compressed to a single 24-hour day, all of recorded human history (~5,000 years) would flash by in about a tenth of a second.
A visual journey through the nested cycles of Vedic time as reckoned in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam — from the breath of Mahā-Viṣṇu and the life of Brahmā down to the truṭi, the smallest measurable instant, and where today falls within them. Explore the kalpa, manvantara, mahāyuga and the four yugas, the sixty-year cycle, month, fortnight, day and muhūrta.