First yuga (age) in a four-yuga cycle of time found in Vedic Hindu cosmology.
1Know these to be the characteristics, O Yudhishthira, of the Krita age.
2Formerly, in the Krita age I had expressed my approval of these creatures.
3In the Krita age, O sire, they were nowhere on earth.
4If he causes the Krita age, he attains to everlasting heaven.
5In the Krita age all the duties exist in their entirety, along with Truth.
6There was a celebrated Rishi of the name of Savarni in the Krita age.
7The duties in the Krita age are of one kind.
8Aided by that religion do thou create the Krita age and ordain it duly.
9The Vedas with the auditions in them, were re-created by me in the Krita age.
10The king is the creator of the Krita age, of the Treta, and of the Dwapara.
11In the Krita age, it exists in entirety.
12In the Krita age, Narayana of great puissance and mighty energy, created him as his son.
13Four thousand years (of the deities) is the duration of the first or Krita age.
14In ancient times, viz., Krita age, O son, there was a Rishi of great fame, named Vyaghrapada.
15Vaishampayana said, Formerly, in the Krita age, O king, there was a foremost of regenerate persons called Arshtishena.
16This, again, is the Krita age.
Translations for krita age