युक्तिमत् युगन्धर

युग

युग 1 A yoke(m. also in this sense); युगव्यायतब हुः R. 3. 34, 10. 87; Śi. 3. 68.
2 A pair, couple, brace; कुचयोर्युगेन तरसा कलिता Śi. 9. 72; स्तनयुग Ś. 1. 19.
3 A couple of stanzas forming one sentence; see युग्म.
4 An age of the world; (the Yugas are four: −कृ त or सत्य, त्रेता, द्वापर and कलि; 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 meral deterioration in the people who live during each age, Kṛta being called the ‘golden’ and Kali or the present age the ‘iron’ age); धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय संभवा- मि युगे युगे Bg. 4. 8; युगशतपरिवर्ता- न् Ś. 7. 34.
4 (Hence) A long period of years.
5 A generation, life; आसप्तमाद् युगात् Ms. 10. 64; जा- त्युत्कर्षो युगे ज्ञेयः पंचमे सप्तमेऽपि वा Y. 1. 96 (युगे = जन्मनि Mit.).
6 An expression for the number ‘four’, rarely for ‘twelve’.
7 A period of five years.
8 A measure of length equal to four Hastas.
9 A part of a chariot or plough.
−Comp.
−अंशकः a year.
−अध्यक्षः 1. N. of Prajāpati. −2. of Śiva.
−अंतः 1. the end of the yoke. −2. the end of an age, end or destruction of the world; युगांतकालप्रतिसंहृतात्मनो जगंति यस्यां सविकाशमासत Śi. 1. 23; R. 13. 6.
3 meridian, midday.
−अंतर 1. a kind of yoke. −2. a succeeding generation. −3. another division of the sky; युगांतरमारूढः सविता Ś. 4.
−अवधिः end or destruction of the world; Śi. 17. 40.
−आद्या the first day of a Yuga.
−कीलकः the pin of a yoke.
−क्षयः destruction of the world.
−धरः the pole of a carriage.
−पत्रः
−पत्रकः the mountain ebony.
−पार्श्वग a. going to the side of the yoke, (said of an ox while being broken in to the yoke).
−बाहु a. long-armed; Ku. 2. 18.

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