Variant Interpretations of Hindu Chronology
The "Traditional Puranic
Model" described above is agreed upon by most authors on Hinduism and
Yoga. Six different authors, listed at the end of this paper, describe this
model identically.
However, several other authors, some
of them well-known Hindu teachers, have published descriptions of the cycle of
ages that differ from the traditional Puranic model. These variant theories are
described below.


