'Yuga' definitions:

Definition of 'Yuga'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]