{"id":3665,"date":"2026-03-21T05:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npk1169-001-site1.mtempurl.com\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:49:26","slug":"age-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bharatwisdom.com\/hi\/astronomy\/age-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"\u092c\u094d\u0930\u0939\u094d\u092e\u093e\u0902\u0921 \u0915\u0940 \u0906\u092f\u0941 \u2013 \u0917\u0939\u0928 \u0938\u092e\u092f \u0915\u0940 \u0915\u0932\u094d\u092a\u0928\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0928\u093e"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1279.2px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p id=\"p-rc_e1e3db6af71809d1-752\" data-path-to-node=\"53\"><span data-path-to-node=\"53,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"53,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">The Concept<\/b> <\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"53,2\"><span class=\"citation-3290\">The universe has existed for billions of years<\/span><\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"53,4\">. <\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"53,6\"><span class=\"citation-3289\">This is \u2018Deep Time\u2019<\/span><\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"53,8\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_e1e3db6af71809d1-753\" data-path-to-node=\"54\"><span data-path-to-node=\"54,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"54,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">The Story<\/b> <\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"54,2\"><span class=\"citation-3288\">For over a millennium, Western thought was constrained by a strict biblical chronology, attempting to squeeze the entire history of the Earth into a meagre 6,000 years<\/span><\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"54,4\">. <\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"54,6\"><span class=\"citation-3287\">Indian cosmology, however, was already thinking in billions<\/span><\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"54,8\">. <\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"54,10\"><span class=\"citation-3286\">The Puranas described a <\/span><i data-path-to-node=\"54,10\" data-index-in-node=\"24\"><span class=\"citation-3286\">Kalpa<\/span><\/i><span class=\"citation-3286\"> (a single day of the Creator) as 4.32 billion years\u2014a number so vast it was dismissed as &#8220;myth&#8221; by colonial scholars<\/span><\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"54,12\">. <\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"54,14\"><span class=\"citation-3285\">Yet, when modern radiometric dating finally revealed the Earth&#8217;s age to be roughly 4.5 billion years, the &#8220;myth&#8221; suddenly looked like a premonition<\/span><\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"54,16\">. <\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"54,18\"><span class=\"citation-3284\">As Carl Sagan later noted, India was the only ancient culture whose time-scale matched the staggering &#8220;Deep Time&#8221; of modern science<\/span><\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"54,20\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"55\"><b data-path-to-node=\"55\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">The Timeline<\/b><\/p>\n<table data-path-to-node=\"56\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Milestone<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Details<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span data-path-to-node=\"56,1,0,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"56,1,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Western Ref.<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<p id=\"p-rc_e1e3db6af71809d1-754\" data-path-to-node=\"56,1,1,0\"><span data-path-to-node=\"56,1,1,0,1\"><span class=\"citation-3283\">1950s CE (Radiometric dating of Earth)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span data-path-to-node=\"56,2,0,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"56,2,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Indian Source<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<p id=\"p-rc_e1e3db6af71809d1-755\" data-path-to-node=\"56,2,1,0\"><span data-path-to-node=\"56,2,1,0,1\"><span class=\"citation-3282\">Prior to 5000 BCE (Puranas \/ <\/span><i data-path-to-node=\"56,2,1,0,1\" data-index-in-node=\"29\"><span class=\"citation-3282\">Surya Siddhanta<\/span><\/i><span class=\"citation-3282\">) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span data-path-to-node=\"56,3,0,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"56,3,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Chron. Gap<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<p id=\"p-rc_e1e3db6af71809d1-756\" data-path-to-node=\"56,3,1,0\"><span data-path-to-node=\"56,3,1,0,1\"><span class=\"citation-3281\">Over 7,000 Years<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"57\"><b data-path-to-node=\"57\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">The Original Text<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote data-path-to-node=\"58\">\n<p id=\"p-rc_e1e3db6af71809d1-757\" data-path-to-node=\"58,0\"><span data-path-to-node=\"58,0,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"58,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Sanskrit Shloka:<\/b> \u091a\u0924\u0941\u0930\u094d\u092f\u0941\u0917\u0938\u0939\u0938\u094d\u0930\u0902 \u0924\u0941 \u092c\u094d\u0930\u0939\u094d\u092e\u0923\u094b \u0926\u093f\u0928\u092e\u0941\u091a\u094d\u092f\u0924\u0947 \u0964 <\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"58,0,2\"><span class=\"citation-3280\">\u0938 \u0924\u093e\u0935\u0924\u0940\u0902 \u0930\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0930\u093f\u092e\u092a\u093f \u0936\u0947\u0924\u0947 \u0938 \u092a\u0941\u0930\u0941\u0937\u094b\u0924\u094d\u0924\u092e\u0903 \u0965 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"58,0\"><span data-path-to-node=\"58,0,4\"> <b data-path-to-node=\"58,0,4\" data-index-in-node=\"1\">Transliteration:<\/b> Caturyugasahasra\u1e43 tu brahma\u1e47o dinamucyate | <\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"58,0,6\"><span class=\"citation-3279\">Sa t\u0101vat\u012b\u1e43 r\u0101trimapi \u015bete sa puru\u1e63ottama\u1e25 || <\/span><\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"58,0,9\"><b data-path-to-node=\"58,0,9\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"><span class=\"citation-3278\">Reference:<\/span><\/b><span class=\"citation-3278\"> Vishnu Purana (1.3) (Describes the Yugas and Kalpas totalling billions of years)<\/span><\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"58,0,11\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"58,0\"><span data-path-to-node=\"58,0,13\"><b data-path-to-node=\"58,0,13\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"><span class=\"citation-3277\">Meaning:<\/span><\/b><span class=\"citation-3277\"> &#8220;One thousand Chatur-Yugas are said to be one day of Brahma. That Supreme Person sleeps for a night of equal duration.&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"source-inline-chip-container ng-star-inserted\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p-rc_e1e3db6af71809d1-758\" data-path-to-node=\"59\"><span data-path-to-node=\"59,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"59,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Related Innovations<\/b> <\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"59,2\"><span class=\"citation-3276\">Cosmic Breath: The belief that the universe expands and contracts (Pralaya)<\/span><\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"59,4\">. <\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"59,6\"><span class=\"citation-3275\">The Puranas serve as the source<\/span><\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"59,8\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_e1e3db6af71809d1-759\" data-path-to-node=\"60\"><span data-path-to-node=\"60,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"60,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Fun Fact<\/b> <\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"60,2\"><span class=\"citation-3274\">The \u2018Day of Brahma\u2019 lasts 4.32 billion years<\/span><\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"60,4\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_e1e3db6af71809d1-760\" data-path-to-node=\"61\"><span data-path-to-node=\"61,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"61,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">The Modern Legacy<\/b> <\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"61,2\"><span class=\"citation-3273\">The Geological Time Scale is used to comprehend how the Earth and planets developed, and this concept is consistent with it<\/span><\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"61,4\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[109,486,110,487,105,106,107,108],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-age-of-earth","tag-astronomy-featured","tag-carl-sagan","tag-cosmic-astronomy","tag-cosmology","tag-deep-time","tag-kalpa","tag-puranas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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