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Meaning of "Yuga"

Word

Yuga

Sanskrit

युग

IAST

yuga

In General

The epoch or era within a four-age cycle. The four yugas (cycles of time) are sathyayuga , tretayuga , dvaparayuga and Kaliyuga ,and the time span of all the four yugas together is 4.32 million years.

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