युग aयुग्म,
युग्य &c. See p.854.
युग n. bn. a yoke, team (exceptionally m.),
[RV.] &c. &c.
f. (
ifc. f(आ). ) a pair, couple, brace,
[GṛŚrS.] ;
[MBh.] &c.
मानुष (also with or
मनुष्य) a race of men, generation (exceptionally m.),
[RV.] &c. &c.
a period or astronomical cycle of 5 (rarely 6) years, a lustrum (
esp. in the cycle of Jupiter),
[MBh.] ;
[Var.] ;
[Suśr.] an age of the world, long mundane period of years (of which there are four,
viz. 1.
कृत or
सत्य, 2.
त्रेता, 3.
द्वापर, 4.
कलि, of which the first three have already elapsed, while the
कलि, which began at midnight between the 17th and 18th of Feb. 3102 B.C. [O. S.], is that in which we live; the duration of each is said to be respectively 1,728,000, 1,296,000, 864,000, and 432,000 years of men, the descending numbers representing a similar physical and moral deterioration of men in each age; the four
युगs comprise an aggregate of 4,320,000 years and constitute a ‘great
युग’ or
महा-युग;
cf. [IW. 178] ),
[AV.] &c. &c.
a measure of length = 86
अङ्गुलs,
[Śulbas.] (= 4
हस्तs or cubits,
[L.] )
a symbolical
N. for the number ‘four’
[Sūryas.] for the number ‘twelve’
[Jyot.] N. of a
partic. position or configuration of the moon,
[VarBṛS.] of a
partic. नाभस constellation (of the class called
सांख्य-योग, when all the planets are situated in two houses),
ib.of a double
श्लोक or two
श्लोकs so connected that the sense is only completed by the two together,
[Rājat.]