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| Kalki | |
|---|---|
| Destroyer of Filth The nemesis of Kali (demon) | |
 Kalki on horse | |
| Devanagari | कल्कि |
| Sanskrit transliteration | Kalki |
| Affiliation | Tenth avatar of Vishnu |
| Successor | Satya Yuga |
| Abode | Shambhala |
| Planet | Earth |
| Weapon | Ratna Maru (sword) (weapon of Shiva) Bow and arrow (sometimes) |
| Mount | Devadatta (i.e. White horse) Shuka (parrot) (sometimes) |
| Texts | Bhagavata Purana Garuda Purana Kalki Purana Padma Purana Vishnu Purana |
| Ethnic group | Brahmin |
| Genealogy | |
| Parents |
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| Siblings | Kavi (elder brother) Pragya (elder brother) Sumantrak (elder brother) Sumuti (sister-in-law; Pragya's wife) Maalini (sister-in-law; Sumantrak's wife) (From Kavi) Vrihad Keerti (nephew) Vrihadbahu (nephew) (From Pragya) Yagya (nephew) Vigya (nephew) (From Sumantrak) Shasan (nephew) Vegavaan (nephew) |
| Consort | Padma (Avatar of Lakshmi, and daughter of King Vrihadrath and Kaumudi) Ramaa (second wife) (Daughter of King Shashidhwaja and Sushanta) |
| Children | (From Padma) Jai (son) Vijai (son) (From Ramaa) Meghamaal (son) Balahaka (son) |
Kalki (Devanagari: कल्कि)
Maha Avatara
The Garuda Purana lists ten avatars, with Kalki being the tenth.
Puranas
One of the earliest mentions of Kalki is in the Vishnu Purana, dated to after the Gupta Empire.
Birth
As written in the Kalki Purana:
शम्भल ग्राम मुख्यस्य ब्राह्मणस्य महात्मनः।
— Srimad Bhagavatha Maha Purana – 12:2:18
भवने विष्णुयशसः कल्किः प्रादुर्भविष्यति॥
द्वादश्यां शुक्ल-पक्षस्य माधवे मासि माधवम्।
— 1:2:15 Kalki Purana
जातं ददृशतुः पुत्रं पितरौ हृष्ट-मानसौ।।
Parashurama, the sixth avatar of Vishnu is a Chiranjivi (immortal) and in scripture is believed to be alive, waiting for the return of Kalki. He will be a martial preceptor of Kalki, teaching him military science, warfare arts and instructing him in the performance of a severe penance in order to receive celestial weaponry. The purana also relates that Hari, will then give up the form of Kalki, return to heaven and the Krita or Satya Yuga will return as before.
The Padma Purana describes that Kalki will end the age of kali and kill all mlecchas. He will gather all brahmanas and propound the highest truth, bringing back the ways of dharma that have been lost, and removing the prolonged hunger of the Brahmin. Kalki will defy oppression and be a banner of victory for the world.
Weapons & Paraphernalia
This horse was manifested from Garuda, and it can go anywhere at will and assume many different forms. Here also is a parrot that knows everything - past, present, and future. I would like to offer You both the horse and the parrot and so please accept them. By the influence of this horse and parrot, the people of the world will know You as a learned scholar of all scriptures who is a master of the art of releasing arrows, and thus the conqueror of all. I would also like to present You this sharp, strong sword and so please accept it. The handle of this sword is bedecked with jewels, and it is extremely powerful. As such, the sword will help You to reduce the heavy burden of the earth.
Thereafter, Lord Kalki picked up His brightly shining trident and bow and arrows and sets out from His palace, riding upon His victorious horse and wearing His amulet.
Padma
Padma will be the consort of the avatar, as written in the Kalki Purana. The beloved of Kalki who is incarnation of Lakshmi lives at द्वीप dwīpa (island) सिंहले Simhalē (सिंह simha (Lion) + ले lē(of))
Lord Vishnu said to Padmavati that you will receive me Lord Narayana as your husband. Anyone (human, demigod, demon, etc.) who desires a conjugal relationship with you will immediately be transformed into a woman, regardless of age. This curse is not applicable to Lord Hari, who is your only husband.
Predictions about his birth and time of arrival
Main article: End timeModern scholars have attempted to link recent history to Kalki. Given the traditional account of the Kali Yuga, which will last 432,000 years, and began in 3102 BCE, scholars such as Sri Yukteswar Giri have claimed there are smaller cycles within the larger 432,000 year revolution.
Origin of Kalki
Astrology
There have been a range of dates predicted, purportedly from different methods of calculation. Sri Potuluri Virabrahmendra Swami, for example, wrote 400 years ago in his Divya Maha Kalagnanam, or 'Divine Knowledge of the Time,' that Kalki would arrive when the moon, sun, Venus and Jupiter entered the same sign. This is not a rare occurrence and last happened in early 2012, passing without event. The time of arrival of Kalki has not been consistently asserted by astrologers.
People who have claimed to be Kalki
- Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community believe their founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, to be the Kalki Avatar.
- Members of the Bahá'í Faith have interpreted the prophecies of end time as references to the arrival of their founder Bahá'u'lláh, which has helped growth of the Bahá'í faith in India.
- By some members of the Ahmadiya Muslim Community, Kalki Avatar is believed to be the Islamic Prophet Muhammad; some of the Muslim scholars and a few of the Hindu scholars also argued that Kalki is mentioned indicating Muhammad in some Hindu scriptures. However, most of the Hindu scholars widely discarded it as a false theory, claiming that Kalki is supposed to arrive at the end of Kali Yuga, not in the beginning.
- Víctor Manuel Gómez Rodríguez, or Samael Aun Weor, founder of the Universal Christian Gnostic Movement, stated that he was the Maitreya Buddha and the Kalki Avatar of the New Age of Aquarius".
- The Kalki Avatar Foundation claims that Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi is the Kalki Avatar as well as Messiah and Imam Mehdi, whose teachings are beneficial for people of all faiths.
Kalki Avatar and Saoshyant - Shah Behramshah Varzavand
Persians (Zoroastrian) migrated from Persia to land on the shores of Nargol then spread south to Sanjan and north to Udvada, this migration was based on the prophecy that the mother of the coming Saoshyant, Shah Behramshah Varzavand, will be born in the west of Hindustan, somewhere near Bharuch, Gujarat.
Udvada is the holy place for Zoroastrians and Nargol has religious significance to the followers of Late Shree Nirmala Srivastava (a.k.a Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, the founder of Sahaja Yoga). According to the founder and spiritual leader of Sahaja Yoga, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, her Sahasrara Chakra was opened in Nargol in the year 1970 under a Saru tree, thus marking the beginning of Sahaja Yoga, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi's life was dedicated to preparing the world for the coming of Kalki Avatar.
See also
References
- Kalki Purana: 3:14:31
- Kalki Purana: 1:2:10
- Kalki Purana: 1:3:27
- Kalki Purana: 3:1:1
- Kalki Purana: 1:3:25,28
- Manmatha Nath Dutt, tr., The Garuda Puranam (1908), p. 4
- Kalki Purana: 3:16:27
- Kalki Purana: 2:1:22
- Kalki Purana: 2:6:36
- Kalki Purana: 3:18:44
- ^ Kalki Purana: 1:2:11
- ^ Kalki Purana: 1:2:31-32
- ^ Kalki Purana: 2:6:34
- ^ Kalki Purana: 2:6:35
- Kalki Purana: 2:6:33
- Kalki Purana: 1:2:6
- Kalki Purana: 3:10:25
- Gopal, Madan (1990). K.S. Gautam (ed.). India through the ages. Publication Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. p. 73.
- Wilson, Horace (2001). Vishnu Purana. Ganesha Publishing. p. 72. ISBN 1-86210-016-0.
- https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByTCDrDij9HBWVA4VHYzY2g4elU/edit?pref=2&pli=1 Kalki Purana by Srila Prabhupada
- https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/10341/will-parashurama-reappear-in-kaliyuga/10672#10672
- Agni Purana. pp. 16.7–9.
- Agni Purana. p. 16.10.
- Padma Purana. pp. 6.71.279–282.
- Bhumipati Das. Sri Kalki Purana. 2nd ed. India: Jai Nitai Press, 2011. pp. 33-34 (ch 3, text 25-27).
- Bhumipati Das. Sri Kalki Purana. 2nd ed. India: Jai Nitai Press, 2011. p. 36 (ch 3, text 36).
- Kalki Purana: 1:3:9 - 1:3:10, 2:1:39- 2:1:41.
- Bhumipati Das. Sri Kalki Purana. 2nd ed. India: Jai Nitai Press, 2011. pp. 50-51 (ch 4, text 40-44).
- "Bhaktivedanta VedaBase". Vedabase.net. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
- The Indus Script and the Rg-Veda, Page 16, By Egbert Richter-Ushanas, ISBN 81-208-1405-3
- The Holy Science, by Jnanavatar Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Yogoda Sat-Sanga Society of India, 1949
- Astrology of the Seers, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-89-6
- http://www.kalagnanam.in/date-of-kalki-avatar-birth/
- ^ Chandra, Suresh (15 August 2012). Encyclopaedia of Hindu Gods and Goddesses. Kindle Edition.
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- Santanu Acharya. "Hindu Prophecies: Translations from the Kalki Purana". Ww-iii.tripod.com. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
- Juergensmeyer, Mark (2006). Oxford Handbook of Global Religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 520. ISBN 978-0-19-513798-9, ISBN (Ten digit): 0195137981.
- Momen, Moojan (1990). "Hindu Prophecies". Hinduism and the Bahá'í Faith. Oxford: George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-299-6.
- Buck, Christopher (2004). "The eschatology of Globalization: The multiple-messiahship of Bahā'u'llāh revisited". In Sharon, Moshe (ed.). Studies in Modern Religions, Religious Movements and the Bābī-Bahā'ī Faiths. Boston: Brill. pp. 143–178. ISBN 90-04-13904-4.
- Buck, Christopher (1980). The Mystery of the Sworded Warrior in Hindu Apocalypse: Was Kalki Visnuyas Bahá'u'lláh?.
- The Baha'i Faith in India: A Developmental Stage Approach by William Garlington, Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies, No. 2 (June, 1997)
- "OUR DIALOGUE * Kaliki Avtar". Islamic Voice. November 1997. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ "Muhammad in Hindu scriptures". Milli Gazette. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- Juergensmeyer, Mark (2006). Oxford Handbook of Global Religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 520. ISBN 978-0-19-513798-9, ISBN (Ten digit): 0195137981.
- "Lord Ra Gohar Shahi". Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- Behman Yasht: 3,13 (S.B.E. Vol. V) of the birth 'among the Hindus' (i.e. in India) of Behram Varjavand.
External links
- http://www.kalagnanam.in
- http://www.kalagnanam.in/date-of-kalki-avatar-birth/
- Kalki Indian Mythology 1 2
- Hindu Prophecies: Translations from the Kalki Purana
- Commentaries on the Kalki Purana
- Sri Dasam Granth Sahib
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