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Eastern Mind
20 April 2013, 06:40 PM
Vannakkam: If I wanted to learn more about the differences in yugas, what scripture would be good to look at?

Nandri

Aum Namasivaya

Omkara
21 April 2013, 12:00 AM
Vannakkam: If I wanted to learn more about the differences in yugas, what scripture would be good to look at?

Nandri

Aum Namasivaya

The Mahabharata, or any Purana. The kalki purana deals exclusively with Kali yuga, but has not been translated to English yet.

Some extracts from the Puranas and the Mahabharata on Kali Yuga-
http://www.hinduism.co.za/kaliyuga.htm

The book 'Lemurian Scrolls' contains Satguru Sivaya Subramaniyaswami's views on the Yugas.

philosoraptor
21 April 2013, 06:43 AM
The Mahabharata, or any Purana. The kalki purana deals exclusively with Kali yuga, but has not been translated to English yet.

Some extracts from the Puranas and the Mahabharata on Kali Yuga-
http://www.hinduism.co.za/kaliyuga.htm

The book 'Lemurian Scrolls' contains Satguru Sivaya Subramaniyaswami's views on the Yugas.

I was about to say that there is indeed a translation of the Kalki, but it turns out I was thinking of the Kalika Purana which is published by Nag.

There are two translations of the Kalki that I found on the internet though:

http://www.exoticindia.com/book/details/sri-kalki-purana-transliterated-text-with-translation-IDK367/

http://www.printsasia.com/book/kalki-purana-b-k-chaturvedi-8128805886-9788128805882

The first one is most likely a complete translation. The second one may or may not be abridged.

Eastern Mind
21 April 2013, 07:13 AM
Vannakkam: Thank you both.

Aum Namasivaya

brahma jijnasa
21 April 2013, 11:23 AM
Vannakkam: If I wanted to learn more about the differences in yugas, what scripture would be good to look at?

Nandri

Aum Namasivaya

Bhāgavatam canto12, chapters 1 "The Degraded Dynasties of Kali-yuga" and 2 "The Symptoms of Kali-yuga" give descriptions of the symptoms of Kali-yuga, online translation see here:
http://vedabase.net/sb/12/en

regards

jignyAsu
21 April 2013, 12:38 PM
Vannakkam: If I wanted to learn more about the differences in yugas, what scripture would be good to look at?

Nandri

Aum Namasivaya

Its impossible to miss any concept of Hinduism in Mahabharata I guess. One place I remember is in a conversation b/w Hanuman and Bhima. A quick google search yielded this.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m03/m03148.htm

This is Ganguly's version. There of course could be several places in the ocean called Mahabharata where this is discussed.

In Bhagavatam, as Brahma Jijnasa puts it 12 canto has some nice discussions on Kali yuga including on the future dynasties. The predictions are amazingly true...no matter whatever we do, the degradation till the end is a fact.

I am sure all the Puranas have such discussions. Vishnu Purana has a section where Sri Veda Vyas actually praises Kali Yuga, I believe.

Kalki Purana is not one of the 18 puranas..I wonder how scholars view it.