'Yug' definitions:
- Yug \Yug\, Yuga \Yu"ga\, n. [Skr. yuga an age, a yoke. See
Yoke.] (Hindoo Cosmog.)
Any one of the four ages, Krita, or Satya, Treta, Dwapara,
and Kali, into which the Hindoos divide the duration or
existence of the world.
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