22 Facts About Kalki

Kalki is described as riding a white horse named Devadatta and wielding a fiery sword.

The name Kalki is derived from Kal, which means "time".

The Garuda Purana lists ten incarnations, with Kalki being the final one.

Kalki is described as the incarnation who appears at the end of the Kali Yuga.

Kalki ends the darkest, degenerating, and chaotic stage of the Kali Yuga to remove adharma and ushers in the Satya Yuga, while riding a white horse with a fiery sword.

Kalki is described as a Brahmin warrior in the Puranas.

Wendy Doniger dates the Kalki Mythology containing Kalki Purana to between 1500 and 1700 CE.

Soon, Kalki worships Shiva, who gets pleased by the devotion and provides him in return a divine white horse named Devadatta, a powerful sword, whereby its handle is bedecked with jewels, and a parrot named Shuka, who is an all-knower; the past, the present and the future.

Kalki would establish moral law in four-fold varnas in the suitable manner.

The last Kalki is called "Rudra Cakrin" and is predicted to end the chaos and degeneration by assembling a large army to eradicate a barbarian army.

The Kalki incarnation appears in the historic Sikh Texts, most notably in Dasam Granth, a text that is traditionally attributed to Guru Gobind Singh.

Kalki appears for the first time in the great war epic Mahabharata.

The Kalki incarnation is found in the Maha Puranas such as Vishnu Purana, Matsya Purana, and the Bhagavata Purana.

However, the details relating the Kalki mythologies are divergent between the epic and the Puranas, as well as within the Puranas.

The epic character of Kalki restores dharma, restores justice in the world, but does not end the cycle of existence.

Mitchiner states that some Puranas such as the Yuga Purana do not mention Kalki and offer a different cosmology than the other Puranas.

The Yuga Purana mythologizes in greater details the post-Maurya era Indo-Greek and Saka era, while the Manvantara theme containing the Kalki idea is mythologized greater in other Puranas.

Unlike other messianic concepts, Kalki's purpose is to destroy the invaders and heretics in order to reverse the current age Kali Yuga, the age of evil.

In some Vaishnava texts, Kalki is foretold to appear on a white horse on the day of pralaya to end Kali Yuga, to end the evil and wickedness, and to recreate the world anew along with A New Cycle Of Time.

Some state Kalki will be born to Awejsirdenee and Bishenjun, others in the family of Sumati and Vishnuyasha.

Kalki will become the king, a "Turner Of The Wheel", and one who triumphs.

Kalki will eliminate all barbarians and robbers, end adharma, restart dharma, and save the good people.