Dvāpara Yuga
idea · 4 works · 8 mentions · 12 anchored passages
Dvāpara · Tretā · Tretā Yuga · Dvāpara age · Dvāpara yuga · Kali Yuga · Kali age · Kṛta Yuga · Kṛta age · Tretā age
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Vīramitrodaya
The second cosmic age, associated with knowledge and Gautama's dharma.
> Free from disease, with all their aims accomplished, and with a life of four hundred years, / > in Kṛta, Tretā, etc.
knowledge is established in the Tretā Yuga.
in the Tretā, the worship of the liṅga.
Parāśara Smṛti
The second cosmic age, used comparatively for dharma and ritual rules.
In this Manvantara, there are *dharmas* for the Kṛta, Tretā, and other *yugas*.
The *dharmas* for men are different in the Kṛta *yuga*, the Tretā, and the Dvāpara *yuga*.
Declare some common rules of conduct for the four *varṇas* (social classes), which should be performed by all four *varṇas* who are experts in *dharma*.
Slokantara
The doctrine of four cyclical world-ages (Kṛta, Tretā, Dvāpara, Kali), each with a declining characteristic virtue and moral character
Let them strive to have a mind like that of the people of the Kṛta Yuga, the Tretā, and the Dvāpara.
The practice in the past, in the Kṛta Yuga, was that a person who performed asceticism and vows was considered special, prized and held highest at that time.
The four *yugas* are the four wheels of the cart.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The doctrine of four successive world-ages of progressively declining dharma.
Then adharma set down its second foot, and thereupon arose that age reckoned as the Dvāpara.
Yet seeing no further special distinction therein, they then established everywhere the institution of the four varṇas.
In that age numbered as the Dvāpara, as the yuga drew toward its end, adharma and untruth both increased, O bull among men.