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Chapter 8<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 8 verses 16<\/a><\/p>\n sahasrayugaparyantham ahar yadh brahmaNO vidhu: |<\/em> ahO rAthra vidha: janA: –\u00a0 those wise persons who know the nights and days (of humans upto brahmA) Those wise persons who know the nights and days (of humans upto brahmA) know brahmA’s day as completing with thousand 4-yuga cycles; they also know (brahmA’s) night as completing at the end of the time taken for thousand 4-yuga cycles.<\/p>\n ‘Those men know what the Day and the Night of Brahm\u0101 is, who know that the Day spans one thousand Yugas, and the Night, one thousand Yugas[1. Kali-yuga = 360,000; Dv\u0101para-yuga= 720,000; Tret\u0101-yuga = 1,080,000; K\u1e5bita-yuga = 1,440,000; Total of Four Yugas = 4,320,000 = one Mah\u0101-yuga. >> Chapter 8 verse 18<\/a><\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 8 << Chapter 8 verses 16 SlOkam \u2013 Original sahasrayugaparyantham ahar yadh brahmaNO vidhu: | rAthrim yugasahasrAnthAm thE\u2019horAthravidhO janA: || word-by-word meaning ahO rAthra vidha: janA: –\u00a0 those wise persons who know the nights and days (of humans upto brahmA) thE – they brahmaNa: … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-8","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n rAthrim yugasahasrAnthAm thE\u2019horAthravidhO janA: ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning <\/h3>\n
\nthE – they
\nbrahmaNa: aha: – brahmA’s day
\nsahasrayuga paryantham vidhu: – know as completing with thousand 4-yuga cycles;
\nrAthrim – (brahmA’s) night
\nyuga sahasrAnthAm (vidhu:) – completing at the end of the time taken for thousand 4-yuga cycles<\/p>\nSimple Translation <\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
\nSandhi = 72,000
\nTotal = 432,000 mortal years = 1200 Divine years<\/span><\/p>\n
\nSandhi = 144,000
\nTotal = 864,000 mortal years = 2400 Divine years<\/p>\n
\nSandhi = 216,000
\nTotal = 1,296,000 mortal years = 3600 Divine years<\/p>\n
\nSandhi = 288,000
\nTotal = 1,728,000 mortal years = 4800 Divine years.<\/p>\n
\n1000 Mah\u0101-yugas = A Day of Brahm\u0101
\n1000 Mah\u0101-yugas = A Night of Brahm\u0101
\nA Day of Brahm\u0101 + A Night of Brahm\u0101 = A Kalpa
\n360 Kalpas = one year of Brahm\u0101; 100 such years = a Mah\u0101\u2014Kalpa = The age of Brahm\u0101. Vide<\/em> also, Note 1, verse 4.8<\/a>.].’<\/p>\n
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