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युगम् [yugam] 1 A yoke (m. also in this sense); युगव्यायतबाहुः [R.3.34;1.87;] [Śi.3.68.]
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A pair, couple, brace; कुचयोर्युगेन तरसा कलिता [Śi.9.72;] स्तनयुग [Ś.1.19.]
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A couple of stanzas forming one sentence; see युग्म.
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An age of the world; (the Yugas are four: कृत or सत्य, त्रेता, द्वापर and कलि; the duration of each is said to be respectively 1,728,; 1,296,; 864.; and 432, years of men, the four together comprising 4,32, years of men which is equal to one Mahāyuga q. v.; it is also supposed that the regularly descending length of the Yugas represents a corresponding physical and moral deterioration in the people who live during each age, Krita being called the 'golden' and Kali or the present age the 'iron' age); धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय संभवामि युगे युगे [Bg.4.8;] युगशतपरिवर्तान् Ś7.34.
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