Kali Yuga
idea · 4 works · 5 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Kali · Kali age · Kali yuga · Kaliyuga · Tiṣya · the age of Kali · the world's destruction · world in chaos
in the texts
Vīramitrodaya
The fourth and most degenerate cosmic age, marked by decline of dharma, charity as the primary virtue, and moral inversion.
Tiṣya = Kali.
in the Kali Yuga, only charity.
in the Kali Yuga, only charity.
Āṅgirasa Smṛti
The current cosmological age (yuga) invoked as the temporal setting for warnings against extreme sin.
**One Should Not Cause Extreme Injustice and Other Such Acts in the Kali Yuga**
Extreme injustice, extreme malice, extreme cruelty, even in the Kali age, extreme transgression, and extreme violation of scripture—one should not do or cause these to be done.
Parāśara Smṛti
The present, degenerate cosmic age, framed throughout as the reason this particular dharma text is needed.
And in this Kali *yuga*, young girls give birth.
in the Kali *yuga*, those of Parāśara are remembered.
Kings are conquered by thieves, and men by women in the Kali *yuga*.
Slokantara
The degenerate age described as the consequence of people abandoning their caste duties, marked by social chaos, violence, and moral collapse.
But if they do not remember their respective duties, that is called a world in chaos.