Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist
The four yugas of Hindu mythology (Krita, Treta, Dvapara, Kali) are based on the numbers on traditional four-sided dice: four, three, two, one. They refer to the four legs of the bull of dharma. In the ideal age, the bull stands on four legs, in the age of Ram it has only three, in the age of Krishna it has only two, and currently we are in one before the flood of doom. Or they may refer to the decreasing duration of the four yugas, 4321, giving us hope that Kali Yuga is the shortest.
