Saturday, October 25, 2008

Swetha Varaha Kalpa

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I just tried to interpret the name: Swetha Varaaha Kalpa.
It literally meant for me:" Swetha" means White
"Varaaha" means pig/hog/boar
"Kalpa" means aeon.
it was roughly about 2 billion years ago. It is said that, the First ice (white in color) age, called "Huronian glaciation" took place and the entire earth was covered in Ice. may be our ancestors referred to such an age by mentioning the Kalpa as: Svetha Varaha, whose Tatparya may be, Age of ice where white animals like Polar bears, Polar hoars existed and dominated the entire Earth.

Our ancestors may have given hence this name. Otherwise what can be the motive or intention behind such a name for this Kalpa.
Just think!!!


1 comment:

S Janardhanan said...

There is just one flaw in this theory. 2 billion years ago, there were no multicellular life, let alone mammals living on earth.

It could be one of the more recent ice ages 10-20 thousand years ago.