12 A Brave New World The Yugas Rather interestingly, and possibly due to the Greek civilisation once reaching the Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan, we find the 1 exact same Ages of Man (minus the Heroic Age) in the Puranic Hindu Yugas: The Satya Yuga (Gold), a time when most people had direct experience of realisation and suffering didn’t exist; the Treta Yuga (Silver), when mental powers come to the fore and invention takes place; the Dvapara Yuga (Bronze) sees science flourish and the end 1
The Puranas are a corpus of important Hindu religious and philosophical texts, the earliest written accounts being compiled around the third century CE, although they are said to have existed in an oral form for at least a millennium before. The exact composition of their earlier form can only be guessed at, and they were certainly modified throughout the medieval period and even up to the present day.
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