yugma, yugya &c. See p. 854.
yugá n. a yoke, team (exceptionally m.), [RV.] &c. &c.
(ifc. f(A). ) a pair, couple, brace, [GṛŚrS.]; [MBh.] &c.
(also with mānuṣa or manuṣya) a race of men, generation (exceptionally m.), [RV.] &c. &c.
a period or astronomical cycle of 5 (rarely 6) years, a lustrum (esp. in the cycle of Jupiter), [MBh.]; [Var.]; [Suśr.]
an age of the world, long mundane period of years (of which there are four, viz. 1. Kṛta or Satya, 2. Tretā, 3. Dvāpara, 4. Kali, of which the first three have already elapsed, while the Kali, which began at midnight between the 17th and 18th of Feb. 3102 B.C. [Old Style], is that in which we live; the duration of each is said to be respectively 1,728,000, 1,296,000, 864,000, and 432,000 years of men, the descending numbers representing a similar physical and moral deterioration of men in each age; the four Yugas comprise an aggregate of 4,320,000 years and constitute a ‘great Yuga’ or Mahā-yuga; cf. [IW. 178]), [AV.] &c. &c.
a measure of length = 86 Aṅgulas, [Śulbas.] (= 4 Hastas or cubits, [L.])
a symbolical N. for the number ‘four’, [Sūryas.]
for the number ‘twelve’, [Jyot.]
N. of a partic. position or configuration of the moon, [VarBṛS.]
of a partic. Nābhasa constellation (of the class called Sāṃkhya-yoga, when all the planets are situated in two houses), [ib.]
of a double Śloka or two Ślokas so connected that the sense is only completed by the two together, [Rājat.]