Linga Purana

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.

कल्पार्धसंख्या दिव्या वै कल्पमेवं तु कल्पयेत् कल्पानां वै सहस्रं तु वर्षमेकमजस्य तु

The divine count of half a Kalpa is thus calculated; a thousand Kalpas make one year of the unborn.

वर्षाणामष्टसाहस्रं ब्राह्मं वै ब्रह्मणो युगम् सवनं युगसाहस्रं सर्वदेवोद्भवस्य तु

Eight thousand years is the Brahma Yuga, the age of Brahmā; a thousand Yugas of the Savana are for the origin of all the gods.

सवनानां सहस्रं तु त्रिविधं त्रिगुणं तथा ब्रह्मणस्तु तथा प्रोक्तः कालः कालात्मनः प्रभो

Indeed, a thousand sacrifices are spoken of, of three kinds and three qualities; likewise, the time of Brahmā, who is the embodiment of time, O Lord, is thus declared.

भवोद्भवस्तपश्चैव भव्यो रम्भः क्रतुः पुनः ऋतुर्वह्निर्हव्यवाहः सावित्रः शुद्ध एव च

There is creation, emergence, and austerity; also, what is to be, the blossoming, the sacrifice again, the season, the fire, the carrier of offerings, the Sāvitra, and indeed, the pure one.

उशिकः कुशिकश्चैव गान्धारो मुनिसत्तमाः ऋषभश् च तथा षड्जो मज्जालीयश् च मध्यमः

Uśika, Kuśika, and also Gāndhāra, O best of sages, Ṛṣabha as well, then Ṣaḍja, Majjālīya, and Madhyama.

वैराजो वै निषादश् च मुख्यो वै मेघवाहनः पञ्चमश्चित्रकश्चैव आकूतिर् ज्ञान एव च

Vairāja, Niṣāda, the chief Meghavāhana, the fifth Citraka, and also Ākūti, and knowledge itself.

मनः सुदर्शो बृंहश् च तथा वै श्वेतलोहितः रक्तश् च पीतवासाश् च असितः सर्वरूपकः

Mind, Sudarśa, Bṛṃha, and likewise Śvetalohita, Rakta, those clad in yellow, Asita, and the one of all forms.

एवं कल्पास्तु संख्याता ब्रह्मणो ऽव्यक्तजन्मनः कोटिकोटिसहस्राणि कल्पानां मुनिसत्तमाः

Thus, the kalpas have been enumerated of Brahmā, whose birth is unmanifest; O best of sages, there are billions upon billions of kalpas.

गतानि तावच्छेषाणि अहर्निश्यानि वै पुनः परान्ते वै विकाराणि विकारं यान्ति विश्वतः

So many days and nights have passed; at the end of the supreme period, all modifications everywhere return to their source.

विकारस्य शिवस्याज्ञावशेनैव तु संहृतिः संहृते तु विकारे च प्रधाने चात्मनि स्थिते

The dissolution of transformation occurs only by the command of Śiva; when the transformation is dissolved, both the primordial matter and the self remain.