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Pralaya , in Hindu cosmology
Cosmology

Cosmology is study of the Universe in its totality, and by extension, humanity's place in it. Though the word cosmology is recent , study of the Universe has a long history involving science, philosophy, esotericism, and religion....
 , is a period of time of the cycle of existence of the planets where activity does not occur. It lasts, according to computations of the Brahma
Brahma

Brahma is the Hinduism god of creation and one of the Trimurti, the others being Vishnu and Shiva. He is not to be confused with the Supreme Cosmic Spirit in Hindu Vedanta philosophy known as Brahman....
s, 4,320,000,000 years. The period of activity, Kalpa
KalPa

The KalPa is an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They play in Kuopio, Finland at the Niiralan monttu....
, has the same duration.

Taking 360 Kalpas and equal number of Pralayas, one "Year of Brahma" is gotten. The duration of 100 "Years of Brahma" forms a "Life of Brahma", call of Mahamanvantara , also lasting in total 311,040,000,000,000 years.






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Pralaya , in Hindu cosmology
Cosmology

Cosmology is study of the Universe in its totality, and by extension, humanity's place in it. Though the word cosmology is recent , study of the Universe has a long history involving science, philosophy, esotericism, and religion....
 , is a period of time of the cycle of existence of the planets where activity does not occur. It lasts, according to computations of the Brahma
Brahma

Brahma is the Hinduism god of creation and one of the Trimurti, the others being Vishnu and Shiva. He is not to be confused with the Supreme Cosmic Spirit in Hindu Vedanta philosophy known as Brahman....
s, 4,320,000,000 years. The period of activity, Kalpa
KalPa

The KalPa is an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They play in Kuopio, Finland at the Niiralan monttu....
, has the same duration.

Taking 360 Kalpas and equal number of Pralayas, one "Year of Brahma" is gotten. The duration of 100 "Years of Brahma" forms a "Life of Brahma", call of Mahamanvantara , also lasting in total 311,040,000,000,000 years. This is, according to Blavatsky, the period of activity of the cosmos, following itself a period of inactivity, Mahapralaya, of equal duration.

The word pralaya appears in the Cyclops chapter of Ulysses - James Joyce's epic Irish Literature novel

In the Samkhya
Samkhya

Sankhya, also Samkhya, is one of the six schools of classical Indian philosophy. Sage Kapila is traditionally considered to be the founder of the Sankhya school, although no historical verification is possible....
 philosophy, a philosophy directly linked to hinduism, Pralaya means "non-existence, a state of matter achieved when the three gunas (principles of matter) are in perfect balance.

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