Pralaya
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- For the Record label by the same name, see Pralaya Records.
Pralaya , in Hindu cosmology , is a period of time of the cycle of existence of the planets where activity does not occur. It lasts, according to computations of the Brahmas, 4,320,000,000 years. The period of activity, Manvantara, has the same duration.
Taking 360 Manvantaras and equal number of Pralayas, one "Year of Brahma" is gotten. The duration of 100 "Years of Brahma" forms a "Life of Brahma", call of Mahamanvantara , also lasting in total 311,040,000,000,000 years. This is, according to Blavatsky, the period of activity of the cosmos, following itself a period of inactivity, Mahapralaya, of equal duration.
The word prālāyā appears in the Cyclops chapter of Ulysses - James Joyce's epic Irish Literature novel
In the Samkhya philosophy, a philosophy directly linked to hinduism, Pralaya means "non-existence, a state of matter achieved when the three gunas(principles of matter) are in perfect balance.
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