Treta-yuga

Treta Yuga ( Sanskrit त्रेता युग treta Yuga ) is the second of four in the Hindu scriptures described Yuga or world aging . The Treta Yuga follows the Satya Yuga and is replaced by the Dvapara Yuga . It takes three times as long as Kali Yuga , i.e. 3 × 432,000 = 1,296,000 years. The law of life ( Dharma ) is only three-quarters realized in this age.

literature

• Heinrich Robert Zimmer : Indian myths and symbols: key to the world of forms of the divine. Diederichs Yellow Row 33. 7th edition Diederichs, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-424-00693-9 , pp. 18–24