What Is The Age Of Brahma?

In the Hindu cosmology, Brahma is known as the God of creation, and taking credit for the creation of the Universe. In Hindu scriptures, Lord Brahma’s life span for a kalpa (one day of Brahma) is often given as 311.04 trillion years and his complete life span as 100 kalpas.

The total life period of Brahma is said to be a "Kalpa" wherein the earth and the holy world is created and along with it life begins (a Kalpa is supposed to last 4.32 billion years). It is succeeded by an equal period (one day of Brahma) of universal dissolution during a night of Brahma. It is thought that this cycle of creation, maintenance, and destruction is repeated ad eternum.

Moreover, Brahma is supposed to live for a hundred years of such years, in which one year and one day is equivalent to one of those of man. Each Brahma-year is made up of 360 Brahma-days and 360 Brahma-nights (or 1 Brahma-day and 1 Brahma-night), and is measured in unimaginable periods of time.

The age of Brahma in Hindu cosmology then, is beyond what humans can imagine and is a scope of time that we do not observe in our everyday world. It is a representation of death as a part of the eternal cycle of life in the universal order according to the views of Hinduism.