ब्रह्माण्ड विज्ञान
The Architecture of the Universe
Ancient India described a universe of breathtaking scale and structure: fourteen dimensions of reality, cosmic cycles spanning billions of years, and a time system so precise that one of its units — the Kalpa — matches the measured age of Earth to within 5%. This was not poetry. This was cosmology.
The 14 Lokas
चतुर्दश लोक
Fourteen realms of existence — seven upper worlds of light and realisation (Vyahrtis) and seven lower worlds of density and materialism (Patalas). A fully populated, named, and structured multidimensional universe.
The Yuga Cycle
चतुर्युग — युग चक्र
Four ages in a 4:3:2:1 ratio of decreasing virtue. Satya, Treta, Dvapara, Kali. We are 5,126 years into the current Kali Yuga, which began precisely at midnight on February 17–18, 3102 BCE — verified by modern astronomical software.
Cosmic Time Scales
काल — From Paramanu to Maha-Kalpa
From the paramanu (1/60,750 of a second) to the Maha-Kalpa (311.04 trillion years) — the Vedic time hierarchy is fractal and precise. One Kalpa = 4.32 billion years. The age of Earth = 4.54 billion years.