The fourth in a repeating cycle of four ages, in which the lives of beings are short and the world is afflicted by famine, illness, and war.

The last and worst of the four ages (yuga), the present age of degeneration.

See “dark eon.”

The last of the four ages of human life in Jambudvīpa. In this age humans are endowed with only one remaining quarter of the good qualities that they had during the age of perfection.

The last and worst of the four ages (yuga), the present age of degeneration.

The fourth and most debased in the cycle of four eons. The term is written elsewhere in the translation as “kaliyuga.”