Definitions for yugaˈyʊg ə
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Yu•ga*ˈyʊg ə(n.)(pl.)-gas.
an age of time.
Category: Eastern Religions
any of four ages, each worse than the last, forming a single cycle due to be repeated.
Category: Eastern Religions
* Hinduism..
Origin of Yuga:
1775–85; < Skt
Wiktionary
yuga(Noun)
In Hindu theology, an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the the Dvapara Yuga, the Treta Yugaand finally the Kali Yuga, with incremental lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years.
Origin: युग
Webster Dictionary
Yuga(noun)
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
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Yuga
a name given by the Hindus to the four ages of the world, and, according to M. Barth, of the gradual triumph of evil, as well as of the successive creations and destructions of the universe, following each other in the lapse of immense periods of time.
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