Linga Purana

मानुषेणैव मानेन वर्षाणां यच्छतं भवेत् पितॄणां त्रीणि वर्षाणि संख्यातानीह तानि वै

By human measure, one hundred years for humans equal three years for the ancestors; these are counted here as such.

दश वै द्व्यधिका मासाः पितृसंख्येह संस्मृता लौकिकेनैव मानेन अब्दो यो मानुषः स्मृतः

Ten plus two months, that is, twelve months, are remembered as a year in the reckoning of the ancestors; by worldly measure, this is the year considered for humans.

एतद्दिव्यमहोरात्रम् इति लैङ्गे ऽत्र पठ्यते दिव्ये रात्र्यहनी वर्षं प्रविभागस्तयोः पुनः

This is called the divine day and night in the Lingapurana; in the divine realm, night and day together make a year, and their division is explained again.

अहस्तत्रोदगयनं रात्रिः स्याद्दक्षिणायनम् एते रात्र्यहनी दिव्ये प्रसंख्याते विशेषतः

There, the day is the northern course of the sun, and the night is the southern course; these divine days and nights are specially enumerated.

त्रिंशद्यानि तु वर्षाणि दिव्यो मासस्तु स स्मृतः मानुषं तु शतं विप्रा दिव्यमासास्त्रयस्तु ते

Thirty years are considered one divine month; O Brahmins, one hundred human years equal three divine months.

दश चैव तथाहानि दिव्यो ह्येष विधिः स्मृतः त्रीणि वर्षशतान्येव षष्टिवर्षाणि यानि तु

Ten days likewise are considered a divine rule; three hundred years and sixty years are counted as such.

दिव्यः संवत्सरो ह्येष मानुषेण प्रकीर्तितः त्रीणि वर्षसहस्राणि मानुषाणि प्रमाणतः

This divine year is declared according to human reckoning; three thousand human years are the measure.

त्रिंशदन्यानि वर्षाणि मतः सप्तर्षिवत्सरः नव यानि सहस्राणि वर्षाणां मानुषाणि तु

Another thirty years are considered the Saptarshi year; nine thousand human years are counted.

अन्यानि नवतीश्चैव ध्रौवः संवत्सरस्तु सः षट्त्रिंशत्तु सहस्राणि वर्षाणां मानुषाणि तु

Another ninety years are called the Dhruva year; thirty-six thousand human years are counted.

वर्षाणां तच्छतं ज्ञेयं दिव्यो ह्येष विधिः स्मृतः त्रीण्येव नियुतान्याहुर् वर्षाणां मानुषाणि तु

One hundred years should be known as the divine rule; three hundred thousand human years are said.

षष्टिश्चैव सहस्राणि संख्यातानि तु संख्यया दिव्यं वर्षसहस्रं तु प्राहुः संख्याविदो जनाः

Sixty thousand are counted by enumeration; those who know numbers declare one thousand divine years.

दिव्येनैव प्रमाणेन युगसंख्याप्रकल्पनम् पूर्वं कृतयुगं नाम ततस्त्रेता विधीयते

By the divine measure, the calculation of the number of yugas is made; first is the Krita Yuga, then Treta is prescribed.

द्वापरश्च कलिश्चैव युगान्येतानि सुव्रताः अथ संवत्सरा दृष्टा मानुषेण प्रमाणतः

Then Dvapara and Kali, these are the yugas, O virtuous ones; and the years are observed according to human measure.

कृतस्याद्यस्य विप्रेन्द्रा दिव्यमानेन कीर्तितम् सहस्राणां शतान्यासंश् चतुर्दश च संख्यया

O foremost of Brahmins, the duration of the Kṛta age has been proclaimed according to divine measure: it is fourteen hundred thousand years, counted in thousands and hundreds.

चत्वारिंशत्सहस्राणि तथान्यानि कृतं युगम् तथा दशसहस्राणां वर्षाणां शतसंख्यया

Likewise, the Kṛta Yuga consists of forty thousand years, and also ten thousand years multiplied by a hundred.

अशीतिश् च सहस्राणि कालस्त्रेतायुगस्य च सप्तैव नियुतान्याहुर् वर्षाणां मानुषाणि तु

And the duration of the Tretā Yuga is eighty thousand years, and they say there are seven hundred thousand human years.

विंशतिश् च सहस्राणि कालस्तु द्वापरस्य च तथा शतसहस्राणि वर्षाणां त्रीणि संख्यया

The duration of the Dvāpara Yuga is twenty thousand years, and also three hundred thousand years in total.

षष्टिश्चैव सहस्राणि कालः कलियुगस्य तु एवं चतुर्युगः काल ऋते संध्यांशकात्स्मृतः

The duration of the Kali Yuga is sixty thousand years; thus, the four Yugas together, excluding the portions of the twilight, are remembered.

नियुतान्येव षट्त्रिंशन् निरंशानि तु तानि वै चत्वारिंशत्तथा त्रीणि नियुतानीह संख्यया

There are thirty-six hundred thousand years without the twilight portions, and here, the count is forty-three hundred thousand years.

विंशतिश् च सहस्राणि संध्यांशश् च चतुर्युगः एवं चतुर्युगाख्यानां साधिका ह्येकसप्ततिः

Twenty thousand years are the twilight portion of the four Yugas; thus, the total for the four Yugas with their twilight portions is seventy-one hundred thousand years.

कृतत्रेतादियुक्तानां मनोरन्तरमुच्यते मन्वन्तरस्य संख्या च वर्षाग्रेण प्रकीर्तिता

The period consisting of the Kṛta, Tretā, and the others is called a Manvantara; the count of a Manvantara is proclaimed at the beginning of the years.

त्रिंशत्कोट्यस्तु वर्षाणां मानुषेण द्विजोत्तमाः सप्तषष्टिस्तथान्यानि नियुतान्यधिकानि तु

O best of twice-born, a Manvantara consists of thirty crore human years, and also sixty-seven hundred thousand years in addition.

विंशतिश् च सहस्राणि कालो ऽयम् अधिकं विना मन्वन्तरस्य संख्यैषा लैङ्गे ऽस्मिन्कीर्तिता द्विजाः

Twenty thousand years are the excess duration, excluded; this is the count of a Manvantara as declared in the Liṅga scripture, O Brahmins.

चतुर्युगस्य च तथा वर्षसंख्या प्रकीर्तिता चतुर्युगसहस्रं वै कल्पश्चैको द्विजोत्तमाः

Thus, the count of years for the four Yugas is proclaimed; a thousand cycles of four Yugas make one Kalpa, O best of Brahmins.

निशान्ते सृजते लोकान् नश्यन्ते निशि जन्तवः तत्र वैमानिकानां तु अष्टाविंशतिकोटयः

At the end of the night, the worlds are created; living beings perish during the night. There, for the celestial beings, there are twenty-eight crore.

मन्वन्तरेषु वै संख्या सान्तरेषु यथातथा त्रीणि कोटिशतान्यासन् कोट्यो द्विनवतिस् तथा

In the Manvantaras, the count is as follows: three hundred crore, and also ninety-two crore.

कल्पे ऽतीते तु वै विप्राः सहस्राणां तु सप्ततिः पुनस्तथाष्टसाहस्रं सर्वत्रैव समासतः

O Brahmins, in the past Kalpa, there were seventy thousand, and again eight thousand everywhere in summary.

कल्पावसानिकांस्त्यक्त्वा प्रलये समुपस्थिते महर्लोकात् प्रयान्त्येते जनलोकं जनास्ततः

Leaving behind those at the end of the Kalpa, when dissolution arrives, these beings depart from the Maharloka and go to Janaloka.

कोटीनां द्वे सहस्रे तु अष्टौ कोटिशतानि तु द्विषष्टिश् च तथा कोट्यो नियुतानि च सप्ततिः

There are two thousand crore, eight hundred crore hundreds, and sixty-two crore, and seventy hundred thousand.