the decadent age of the world
The Age (Yuga) in which materialistic forces dominate the activities of the world and spiritual values decline.
One of the four "yugas" or ages according to Hindu tradition, the "Kali Yuga" is the one in which ignorance of spiritual truth is at its height. (I) The fourth, or present, cycle of time (yuga). (N5) See also Kalanki. –Ed.
The fourth of the ages; the iron age or the age of quarreling and hypocrisy.
"Yuga" is an age or cycle. According to the Indian philosophy our evolution is divided into four yugas or cycles. The Kali-yuga is the present age. It means the "Black Age", a period of 432,000 years. [354
The "age of iron"; the dark age of materialism and ignorance, according to Hindu mythology. We are currently living in the Kali Yuga, which, depending on the source, has a duration of anywhere between 1200 and 432,000 years. At the end of the Kali Yuga, the present world will be destroyed and cleansed, and a new era of peace and enlightenment will dawn.
Sanskrit) The Age of Iron, the current and most degenerate age in the cycle of Yugas, or Æons.
The last of the four yugas or aeons of time before Pralaya or Deluge
KalÄ« Yuga (DevanÄgarÄ«: कली यà¥à¤—) (lit. Age of Kali, also known as The Age of Darkness), is one of the four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of Yugas, as described in Hindu scriptures, the others being Dwapara Yuga, Treta Yuga, and Satya Yuga. According to the Surya Siddhanta, an astronomical treatise that forms the basis of all Hindu and Buddhist calendars, Kali Yuga began at midnight (00:00) on 18 February 3102 BCE in the proleptic Julian calendar or 23 January 3102 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, which is also considered by many Hindus to be the time that Krishna left his body.