yugaM 1 A yoke ( m. also in this sense); yugavyAyataba huH R. 3. 34 , 10. 87 ; Śi. 3. 68. 2 A pair, couple, brace; kucayoryugena tarasA kalitA Śi. 9. 72 ; stanayuga Ś. 1. 19. 3 A couple of stanzas forming one sentence; see yugma . 4 An age of the world; (the Yugas are four: — kf ta or satya , tretA, dvApara and kali ; the duration of each is said to be respectively 1,728,000; 1,296,000; 864,000; and 432,000 years of men, the four together comprising 4,320,000 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, Kṛta being called the ‘golden’ and Kali or the present age the ‘iron’ age); DarmasaMsTApanArTAya saMBavAmi yuge yuge Bg. 4. 8 ; yugaSataparivartAn Ś. 7. 34. 5 (Hence) A long period of years. 6 A generation, life; AsaptamAd yugAt Ms. 10. 64 ; jAtyutkarzo yuge jYeyaH paMcame saptame'pi vA Y. 1. 96 ( yuge = janmani Mit. ). 7 An expression for the number ‘four’, rarely for ‘twelve’. 8 A period of five years. 9 A measure of length equal to four Hastas . 10 A part of a chariot or plough. Comp. — aMSakaH a year. — aDyakzaH 1 N. of Prajāpati. 2 of Śiva. — aMtaH 1 the end of the yoke. 2 the end of an age, end or destruction of the world; yugAMtakAlapratisaMhftAtmano jagaMti yasyAM savikASamAsata Śi. 1. 23 ; R. 13. 6. 3 meridian, midday. — aMtara 1 a kind of yoke. 2 a succeeding generation. 3 another division of the sky; yugAMtaramArUQaH savitA Ś. 4. — avaDiH end or destruction of the world; Śi. 17. 40. — AdyA the first day of a Yuga. — kIlakaH the pin of a yoke. — kzayaH destruction of the world. — DaraH the pole of a carriage. — patraH — patrakaH the mountain ebony. — pArSvaga a. going to the side of the yoke, (said of an ox while being broken ( pb ) in to the yoke). — bAhu a. long-armed; Ku. 2. 18.