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them. In that watery expanse, Han* remains seated upon the coils
of Ananta, with His eyes closed.
With every Day and Night, the age of BrahmS. declines. He
lives for one hundred years only. Half of Brahma's age is called
Pararddha. The first Pararddha has expired, the second has com-
menced with our Kalpa. Every day of Brahma is called one Kalpa.
At the beginning of the first Pararddha was Brahma Kalpa,
when Brahma or the present Kosmos was born.
At the end of the first Pararddha was Padma Kalpa, when the
Loka-Padma (the lotus of Lokas) appeared at the navel of Hari.
The.first Kalpa of the second Pararddha, which is the present
Kalpa, is called Varaha Kalpa. Hari incarnated as Varaha or Boar
during this Kalpa.
The two Pararddhas are but a wink of Bhagavan. Kala can-
not measure him.
[I Day of Brahma = 12,000,000 Deva years,
i Night of Brahma = 12,000,000 Do.
24,000,000 Do.
Multiplying by 360
i year of Brahma = 8,640,000,000 Deva years.
Multiplying by 100
Age of Brahma = 864,000,000,000 Deva years.
Multiplying by 360
31,1 0,40,00,00,00,000 Lu n ar years.
I Kali Yuga, including Twilight (Sandhya and Sandhyansa)
= 1,200 X 360 = 4,32,000 Lunar years.
Varaha Kalpa = 50 X 360+ 1 = iSoooist Kalpa.
The present is the seventh Manvantara of that Kalpa.
The present Kali Yuga is the 28th Yuga of that Manvantara
and 4,994 years of that Yuga have expired in the present year of
Christ 1 894.]
[THEOSOPHICAL CORRESPONDENCES. The words Kalpa and
Manvantara are carelessly used in Theosophical literature. But I
shall use those terms, specially with reference to page 309 of the
second volume of the Secret Doctrine (first edition.)
I Kalpa = 7 Rounds.
i Round = 2 Manvantaras,
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