Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 9.3.32

tat putra-pautra-naptrinam

gotrani ca na srinmahe

kalo 'bhiyatas tri-nava-

catur-yuga-vikalpitah

SYNONYMS

tat -- there; putra -- of the sons; pautra -- of the grandsons; naptrinam -- and of the descendants; gotrani -- the family dynasties; ca -- also; na -- not; srinmahe -- we do hear of; kalah -- time; abhiyatah -- have passed; tri -- three; nava -- nine; catur-yuga -- four yugas (Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali); vikalpitah -- thus measured.

TRANSLATION

Twenty-seven catur-yugas have already passed. Those upon whom you may have decided are now gone, and so are their sons, grandsons and other descendants. You cannot even hear about their names.

PURPORT

During Lord Brahma's day, fourteen Manus or one thousand maha-yugas pass away. Brahma informed King Kakudmi that twenty-seven maha-yugas, each consisting of the four periods Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali, had already passed. All the kings and other great personalities born in those yugas had now departed from memory into obscurity. This is the way of time as it moves through past, present and future.

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