section_path: Characteristics
section_name: Characteristics
paragraph_text: Characteristics
  
  Hinduism often symbolically represents morality (dharma) as an Indian bull. In the Satya Yuga, the first stage of development, the bull has four legs, which is reduced by one in each age that follows. The four legs of Dharma are Tapas lit. ' austerity ', Śauca lit. ' cleanliness ', Dayā lit. ' compassion ' and Satya lit. ' truth '. By the age of Kali, morality is reduced to only a quarter of that of the golden age, so that the bull of Dharma has only one leg, the one representing Satya.