KALIYUGA

KALIYUGA
   the fourth age of the present aeon which in traditional HINDU COSMOLOGY started with the MAHBHRATA war some 5,000 years ago. It is the last age of a series of ages during which RELIGION and SOCIAL LIFE were in decline and will end in social chaos.

Concise dictionary of Religion. 2012.

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