Krita - AncientVoice

Mbh.1.90.4936	For what cause, O foremost of those that flourished in the Krita age, hast thou been compelled to leave that region and come hither'
Mbh.2.11.417	In the Krita golden age of old, O king, the exalted deity Aditya once came down from heaven into the world of men.
Mbh.3.3.196	Ravi, Gabhastimat, Aja, Kala, Mrityu, Dhatri, Prabhakara, Prithibi, Apa, Teja, Kha, Vayu, the sole stay, Soma, Vrihaspati, Sukra, Budha, Angaraka, Indra, Vivaswat, Diptanshu, Suchi, Sauri, Sanaichara, Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Skanda, Vaisravana, Yama, Vaidyutagni, Jatharagni, Aindhna, Tejasampati, Dharmadhwaja, Veda-karttri, Vedanga, Vedavahana, Krita, Treta, Dwapara, Kali, full of every impurity, Kala, Kastha, Muhurtta, Kshapa, Yama, and Kshana; Samvatsara-kara, Aswattha, Kalachakra, Bibhavasu, Purusha, Saswata, Yogin, Vyaktavyakta, Sanatana, Kaladhyaksha, Prajadhyaksha, Viswakarma, Tamounda, Varuna, Sagara, Ansu, Jimuta, Jivana, Arihan, Bhutasraya, Bhutapati, Srastri, Samvartaka, Vanhi, Sarvadi, Alolupa, Ananta, Kapila, Bhanu, Kamada, Sarvatomukha, Jaya, Visala, Varada, Manas, Suparna, Bhutadi, Sighraga, Prandharana, Dhanwantari, Dhumaketu, Adideva, Aditisuta, Dwadasatman, Aravindaksha, Pitri, Matri, Pitamaha, Swarga-dwara, Prajadwara, Mokshadwara, Tripistapa, Dehakarti, Prasantatman, Viswatman, Viswatomukha, Characharatman, Sukhsmatman, the merciful Maitreya.
Mbh.3.100.5246	There were in the Krita age certain tribes of fierce Danavas that were invincible in battle.
Mbh.3.141.7208	O child, in days of yore, there was once a terrible time in the Krita Yuga when the eternal and primeval Deity assumed the duties of Yama.
Mbh.3.148.7550	In the Krita age, the state of things was one; and in the Treta, another; and in the Dwapara, still another.
Mbh.3.148.7556	Thereupon Hanuman said, O child, that yuga is called Krita when the one eternal religion was extant.
Mbh.3.148.7559	It is for this that this age is called Krita perfect.
Mbh.3.148.7561	And, O child, in the Krita age, there were neither gods, nor demons, nor Gandharvas, nor Yakshas, nor Rakshasas, nor Nagas.
Mbh.3.148.7571	And in the Krita Yuga, the distinctive characteristics of Brahmanas, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, and Sudras were natural and these ever stuck to their respective duties.
Mbh.3.148.7577	The religion consisting in the identification of self with Brahma indicates the Krita Yuga.
Mbh.3.148.7578	And in the Krita Yuga, the virtue of the four orders is throughout entire in four-fold measure.
Mbh.3.148.7579	Such is the Krita Yuga devoid of the three qualities.
Mbh.3.161.8175	O Bharata, in the Krita Yuga, men were patient and able in their respective occupations and they knew how to display prowess.
Mbh.3.187.9302	Four thousand years have been said to constitute the Krita Yuga.
Mbh.3.187.9309	And after the Kali Yuga is over, the Krita Yuga comes again.
Mbh.3.188.9478	In the Krita age I become white, in the Treta age I become yellow, in the Dwapara I have become red and in the Kali age I become dark in hue, I the Kali age, the proportion of immorality becometh three-fourths, a fourth only being that of morality.
Mbh.3.189.9515	What also is the limit, having attained which the Krita age will begin anew?
Mbh.3.189.9520	O bull of the Bharata race, in the Krita age, everything was free from deceit and guile and avarice and covetousness; and morality like a bull was among men, with all the four legs complete.
Mbh.3.189.9631	And then when the Sun, the Moon, and Vrihaspati will, with the constellation Pushya, enter the same sign, the Krita age will begin again.
Mbh.3.190.9648	and the like, and O Bharata, when sin will thus have been rooted out and virtue will flourish on arrival of the Krita age, men will once more betake themselves to the practice of religious rites.
Mbh.3.190.9649	And in the age that will set in, viz, the Krita, well-planted gardens and sacrificial compounds and large tanks and educational centres for the cultivation of Brahmanic lore and ponds and temples will re-appear everywhere.
Mbh.3.190.9653	And men will devotedly practise charity and vows and observances, and the Brahmanas devoted to meditation and sacrifices will be of virtuous soul and always cheerful, and the rulers of the earth will govern their kingdoms virtuously, and in the Krita age, the Vaisyas will be devoted to the practices of their order.
Mbh.3.190.9655	And Sudras will be devoted to service of the three high orders, These, O Yudhishthira, are the courses of the Krita, the Treta, the Dwapara and the succeeding age.
Mbh.4.50.1946	The Gandiva, however, doth not cast dice such as the Krita or the Dwapara, but it shooteth upon foes blazing and keen-edged shafts by myriads.
Mbh.5.132.5878	When the king properly abideth by the penal code, without making any portion of it a dead letter, then that best of periods called the Krita Yuga setteth in.
Mbh.5.132.5880	It is the king that createth the Krita, the Treta, or the Dwapara age.
Mbh.5.132.5882	That king who causeth the Krita age to set in, enjoyeth heaven exceedingly.
Mbh.5.142.6368	When thou wilt behold in battle Arjuna, on his car drawn by white steeds and driven by Krishna, applying Aindra, Agneya and Maruta weapons, and when thou wilt hear the twang of Gandiva piercing the welkin like the very thunder, then all signs of the Krita, the Treta, and the Dwapara ages will disappear but, instead, Kali embodied will be present.
Mbh.5.142.6369	When thou wilt behold in battle Kunti's son, invincible Yudhishthira, devoted to Yapa and Homa and resembling the very sun in brilliance, protecting his own mighty army and burning the army of his foes, then all signs of the Krita, the Treta, and the Dwapara ages will disappear.
Mbh.5.142.6370	When thou wilt behold in battle the mighty Bhimasena dancing, after having quaffed the blood of Dussasana, like a fierce elephant with rent temples after having killed a mighty antagonist, then all signs of the Krita, the Treta, and the Dwapara ages will disappear.
Mbh.5.142.6371	When thou wilt behold in battle Arjuna checking Drona and Santanu's son and Kripa and king Suyodhana, and Jayadratha of Sindhu's race, all rushing fiercely to the encounter, then all signs of the Krita, the Treta and the Dwapara ages will disappear.
Mbh.5.142.6372	When thou wilt behold in battle the two mighty sons of Madri, those heroic car-warriors, capable of breaking into pieces all hostile cars, agitating, from the very moment when weapons will begin to clash, the army of Dhritarashtra's sons like a couple of infuriated elephants, then all signs of the Krita, the Treta and the Dwapara ages will disappear.
Mbh.6.10.520	Sanjaya said, O bull of Bharata's race, four Yugas set in Bharata's Varsha, viz, Krita, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali.
Mbh.6.10.521	The Yuga that sets in first is Krita.
Mbh.6.10.522	O Lord; after the expiry of Krita comes Treta; after expiry of Treta comes Dwapara; and after that last of all, sets in Kali.
Mbh.6.10.523	Four thousand years, O best of the Kurus, are reckoned as the measure of life, O best of kings, in the Krita epoch.
Mbh.6.10.527	In the Krita age, O king, men are born and beget children, by hundreds and thousands, that are of great strength and great power, endued with the attribute of great wisdom, and possessed of wealth and handsome features.
Mbh.6.81.4256	And loud and fierce was the uproar made by the twang of the bows stretched by the kings, resembling the roar of the ocean while churned in the Krita age by the gods and the great Asuras.
Mbh.8.34.1650	The constellations became its shaft; the Krita age became its yoke; and that best of Snakes, viz, Vasuki, became the Kuvara of that car.
Mbh.9.35.2621	Vaishampayana said, Formerly, in the Krita age, O king, the ascetics dwelling in Naimisha were engaged in a grand sacrifice extending for twelve years.
Mbh.9.38.2792	Vaishampayana said, Formerly, in the Krita age, O king, there was a foremost of regenerate persons called Arshtishena.
Mbh.9.38.2805	In that very tirtha in the Krita age, Sindhudwipa of great energy, and Devapi also, O monarch, had acquired the high status of Brahmanhood.
Mbh.9.45.3357	In days of yore, in the Krita age, O king, all celestials, duly approaching Varuna, said unto him these words, As Shakra, the Lord of the celestials, always protects us from every fear, similarly be thou the Lord of all the rivers!
Mbh.12.3.129	In the Krita period, O sire, I was of the same age with Bhrigu.
Mbh.12.36.1908	In the Krita age, an assembly of Rishis, of rigid vows, having approached the great and puissant lord of creation, Manu, while seated at his ease, solicited him to discourse on duties, saying, What food should be taken, who is to be regarded a deserving person for gifts, what gifts should be made, how should a person study, and what penances should one perform and how, and what acts should be done and what acts should not be done, O lord of creation, tell us everything about all this'
Mbh.12.39.2080	Formerly, in the Krita age, O king, a Rakshasa of the name of Charvaka, O mighty-armed one, performed austere penances for many years in Vadari.
Mbh.12.58.3121	Bhishma said, With concentrated attention, O tiger among kings, listen to it in detail as to how in the Krita age sovereignty first began.
Mbh.12.64.3584	After the expiry of this the Krita age, a confusion will set in, regarding the different modes of life, and innumerable Bhikshus will appear with sectarian marks of different kinds.
Mbh.12.68.3886	When, the king rules with a complete and strict reliance on the science of chastisement, the foremost of ages called Krita is then said to set in
Mbh.12.68.3887	Righteousness sets in the Krita age.
Mbh.12.68.3900	Know these to be the characteristics, O Yudhishthira, of the Krita age.
Mbh.12.68.3921	The king is the creator of the Krita age, of the Treta, and of the Dwapara.
Mbh.12.68.3923	If he causes the Krita age, he attains to everlasting heaven.
Mbh.12.90.5094	The respective ages called Krita, Treta, Dwapara and Kali, O bull of Bharata's race, are all dependent on the conduct of the king.
Mbh.12.111.6395	There was, in the Krita age, a huge camel who had recollection of all the acts of his former life.
Mbh.12.140.8403	O bull of Bharata's race, that Krita, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali, as regards their setting in, are all dependent on the king's conduct.
Mbh.12.206.12533	In the Krita age, O sire, they were nowhere on earth.
Mbh.12.230.14298	I shall, in their order, tell thee the number of years, that are thus for different purposes computed differently in respect of the Krita, the Treta, the Dwapara, and the Kali yugas.
Mbh.12.230.14299	Four thousand years of the deities is the duration of the first or Krita age.
Mbh.12.230.14301	The total duration, therefore, of the Krita yuga is four thousand and eight hundred years of the deities.
Mbh.12.230.14308	In the Krita age all the duties exists in their entirety, along with Truth.
Mbh.12.230.14312	In the Krita age, all persons are free from disease and crowned with success in respect of all their objects, and all live for four hundred years.
Mbh.12.230.14315	The duties set down for the Krita yuga are of one kind.
Mbh.12.230.14320	In the Krita, Penance occupies the foremost place.
Mbh.12.231.14404	In the Krita age the performance of sacrifices was not necessary.
Mbh.12.231.14408	In Krita age, men, worshipping only one Brahma, looked upon the Richs, the Samans, the Yajuses and the rites and sacrifices that are performed from motives of advantage, as all different from the object of their worship, and practised only Yoga, by means of penances.
Mbh.12.231.14415	The righteousness which is seen in the Krita age is now visible in such Brahmanas as are of cleansed souls and as are devoted to penances and the study of the scriptures.
Mbh.12.237.14684	The men, however, of the Krita Yuga are devoted to penances, possessed of tranquil souls, and observant of righteousness
Mbh.12.255.15483	Bhishma said, In days of old, in the Krita age, O son, there was a king of the name of Anukampaka.
Mbh.12.259.15696	The duties in the Krita age are of one kind.
Mbh.12.266.16284	Their words were, In the Krita age, kings should rule their subjects by adopting ways that are entirely harmless.
Mbh.12.334.21343	I heard it from my sire that in the Krita age, O monarch, during the epoch of the Self-born Manu, the eternal Narayana, the Soul of the universe, took birth as the son of Dharma in a quadruple form, viz, as Nara, Narayana, Hari, and the Self-create Krishna
Mbh.12.334.21394	Brahman, Sthanu, Manu, Daksha, Bhrigu, Dharma, Yama, Marichi, Angiras, Atri, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, Vasishtha, Parameshthi, Vivaswat, Shoma, he that has been called Karddama, Krodha, Avak, and Krita, these one and twenty persons, called Prajapatis, were first born.
Mbh.12.335.21513	Subsequently, when Vrihaspati was born in Angiras's race in the first or the Krita age, those seven Rishis charged him with the task of promulgating their treatise which was consistent with the Upanishads and the several branches of the Vedas.
Mbh.12.336.21542	In this Krita age, this anger to which thou hast given way, should not be the characteristic of any one.
Mbh.12.336.21608	After the expiration of this the Krita age, when the Treta age comes in course of the Vivaswat cycle, a great calamity will overtake the worlds.
Mbh.12.337.21633	This, again, is the Krita age.
Mbh.12.339.21957	The Vedas with the auditions in them, were re-created by me in the Krita age.
Mbh.12.340.22102	The portions, thus offered with great reverence unto Vishnu, were, in respect of both the measure and the quality of the articles used, according to the ordinances laid down for the Krita age.
Mbh.12.340.22148	This present epoch that has been set to run is the foremost of all epochs and should be known by the name of Krita.
Mbh.12.348.23201	Having created this religion in days of yore, viz, in the Krita age, in perfect consonance with the Samans, it is borne, O king, by the Supreme Lord, viz, Narayana, himself.
Mbh.12.348.23215	In the Krita age of that ancient Kalpa, Rudra, devoted to Yoga, O monarch, communicated it to all those Rishis that are known by the name of Valikhilyas.
Mbh.12.348.23234	Aided by that religion do thou create the Krita age and ordain it duly.
Mbh.12.348.23239	The age that first commenced was highly auspicious and came to be called by the name of Krita.
Mbh.12.348.23249	From Sanatkumara, the Prajapati Virana, in the beginning of the Krita age, O tiger among Kurus, obtained this cult.
Mbh.12.348.23288	If, O son of Kuru's race the world had been full of such persons, that are full of universal compassion, that are endued with knowledge of the soul, and that are always employed in doing good to others, then the Krita age would have set in.
Mbh.12.349.23333	In the Krita age, Narayana of great puissance and mighty energy, created him as his son.
Mbh.12.349.23348	Appertaining to the Krita age, this narrative has become known to me through my penances, ye regenerate ones.
Mbh.13.14.1008	There was a celebrated Rishi of the name of Savarni in the Krita age.
Mbh.13.14.1022	In ancient times, viz, Krita age, O son, there was a Rishi of great fame, named Vyaghrapada.
Mbh.13.16.1580	SECTION XVI Upamanyu said, There was in the Krita age, O sire, a Rishi celebrated under the name of Tandi.
Mbh.13.17.2121	Thou art he that upholds the Krita and the other ages by causing them to run ceaselessly.
Mbh.13.17.2523	Thou art the first three Yugas viz, Krita, Treta, and Dwapara.
Mbh.13.91.8184	Those names at Vala, Dhriti, Vipapa, Punyakrit, Pavana, Parshni, Kshemak, Divysanu, Vivaswat, Viryavat, Hrimat, Kirtimat, Krita, Jitatman, Munivirya, Diptaroman, Bhayankara, Anukarman, Pratia, Pradatri, Ansumat, Sailabha, Parama krodhi, Dhiroshni, Bhupati, Sraja, Vajrin, and Vari, these are the eternal Viswedevas.
Mbh.13.133.11240	Formerly, in the Krita age I had expressed my approval of these creatures.
Mbh.13.150.12639	He also who in the Krita age adored the gods in a grand Gomedha sacrifice, viz, Rantideva of great splendour, who was equal unto Mahadeva himself, should be named.
Mbh.14.4.87	Vyasa said, O child, in the Krita age Manu was lord of the Earth wielding the sceptre.
Mbh.14.44.1825	The Krita is the first of all the Yugas; there is no doubt in this.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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