The one who has not come yet and is the reason to keep the law
Warning
No one knows the day and anyone who names one is selling something
Resonance
Those keeping dharma in a late age
Symbols
White horseFlaming swordCometShambhala
Mythology Summary
Kalki is the tenth and future avatara, the rider on the white horse Devadatta, born in the village Shambhala to Vishnuyasha and Sumati, who comes at the end of the Kali Yuga with a blazing sword to end the age of darkness and restore dharma. The Vishnu Purana (Book 4) and the Bhagavata Purana (Canto 12) describe his coming, and the Kalki Purana expands it into a full narrative. He has no great independent cult - the Kalki temple in Jaipur is an eighteenth-century foundation - and the tradition gives no date.
Modern Practice
Kalki has no wide living cult to join: he is honoured in the Dashavatara sequence and at the shrines that carry his name, and the practice is the keeping of dharma while the age runs out. Claims that a living person is Kalki are made outside the tradition and should be treated as such.