Property | Number or measurement |
Distance from Satyaloka to Vishnuloka (Brahmaloka-sanatana, abode of Brahma) | 26,200,000 yojanas (209,600,000 miles)[2][3] |
Distance from Dhruvaloka (the pole star) to the Sun | 3,800,000 yojanas[4] |
Distance from Dhruvaloka to Maharloka | 10,000,000 yojanas[5] |
Distance from Maharloka to Janaloka | 20,000,000 yojanas[6] |
Distance from Janaloka to Tapoloka | 80,000,000 yojanas[7] |
Distance from Tapoloka to Satyaloka | 120,000,000 yojanas[8] |
Distance from the Sun to Satyaloka | 233,800,000 yojanas (1,870,400,000 miles)[9] |
Covering[clarification needed] of the Universe | 260,000,000 yojanas (2,080,000,000 miles) away from the Sun, each covering layer is 10 times bigger than previous[10] |
Distance from lower planets to Śesha Nāga lying on the Garbhodaka Ocean | 30,000 yojanas[11] |
Depth of Garbhodaka ocean | 249,800,000 yojanas deep[12] |
Total diameter of the Universe | approximately 500,000,000 yojanas, or 4,000,000,000 miles[13] |
Distance from planet Rāhu to the Sun | 10,000 yojanas (80,000 miles)[14] |
Distance from Rāhu to planets of the Siddhas, Cāranas and Vidyādharas | 1,000,000 yojanas[15] |
Distance from the Earth to the lower planetary systems — Atala, Vitala, Sutala, Talātala, Mahātala, Rasātala and Pātāla | 70,000 yojanas[16] |
Number of kinds of material bodies for soul, jivaatma (or species of life) in material world[clarification needed] | 8,400,000[17][18][19] |
Number of species living in the water | 900,000[20] |
Number of kinds of sthāvara (non-moving living entities such as trees and plants) | 2,000,000[21] |
Number of species of insects and reptiles | 1,100,000[22] |
Number of species of birds | 1,000,000[23] |
Number of varieties of quadrupeds | 3,000,000[24] |
Number of human species[clarification needed] | 400,000[25][26][27] |
Number of Manus who manifest in one kalpa (one day of Brahmā) | fourteen Manus[28] |
Duration of one day of Brahmā | 1,000 chatur-yugas (4.32 billion years) |
Number of Manus who manifest during one month of Brahmā | 420 Manus[29] |
Number of Manus who manifest during one year of Brahmā | 5,040 Manus[30] |
Number of Manus who manifest during the lifetime of one Brahmā | 504,000 Manus[31] |
Total duration of four yugas (Satya+Treta+Dvapara+Kali) | 4,320,000 years[32] |
Number of the present Manu (Vaivasvata Manu) | 7th Manu[33] |
Age of our (Vaivasvata) Manu | 27 chatur-yugas [27 x 4,320,000 solar years][34] |
Number of planetary systems[clarification needed] in this Brahmanda (material universe) [clarification needed] | 14[35][36] |
Duration of 100 years of Brahma (his lifetime duration) | 311,040,000,000,000 years[37] |
Duration of one manvantara, the lifespan of one Manu | seventy-one chatur-yugas (=71*4,320,000 years)[38] |
Duration of Satya yuga | 1,728,000 years[39] |
Duration of Tretā-yuga | 1,296,000 years[40] |
Duration of Dvāpara-yuga | 864,000 years[41] |
Duration of Kali-yuga | 432,000 years[42] |
Duration of lifetime of human in Satya yuga | around 100,000 years.[43] |
Duration of lifetime of human in Tretā-yuga | around 10,000 years[44] |
Duration of lifetime of human in Dvāpara-yuga | around 1,000 years.[45] |
Duration of lifetime of human in Kali-yuga | around 100 years which will be reduced gradually to 20 years[46][47][48][49] |
Time passed after beginning of Kali-yuga (Battle of Kurukṣetra) | 5,126 years as of 2025 CE (See Kali Yuga) |
Steeds of Indra | 1,100[50] |
Spiritual benefits of following Janmashtami Vows (fasting etc.) | One ... becomes freed from the sins of ten million births.[51] |
Frequency with which Krishna descends to this planet | every 8,640,000,000 years (once in a day of Brahma)[52] |
Happiness of liberation into impersonal Brahman (brahmajyoti) compared with happiness of devotional service to Bhagavan | Bhakti is trillion-fold better than impersonalism[53] |