युगyugaयुग्म, युग्य &c. see p.854.
- युग्म, युग्य etc. see page and participle854.
- neuter gender a yoke, team (exceptionally masculine gender) fg-veda etc.
- neuter gender (in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound' f(आ).) a pair, couple, brace Gr2S3rS. MBh. etc.
- neuter gender (also with मानुष or मनुष्य) a race of men, generation (exceptionally masculine gender) fg-veda etc.
- neuter gender a period or astronomical cycle of 5 (rarely 6) years, a lustrum (especially in the cycle of Jupiter) MBh. Var. Sus3r.
- neuter gender an age of the world, long mundane period of years (of which there are four, viz. 1. Kr2ita कृत or Satya सत्य, 2. Treta1 त्रेता, 3. Dva1para द्वापर, 4. Kali कलि, of which the first three have already elapsed, while the Kali कलि, which began at midnight between the 17th and 18th of Feb. 3102 Bombay editionCalcutta edition [O. S.], 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 युग s comprise an aggregate of 4,320,000 years and constitute a "great Yuga युग" or Maha1-yuga महा-युग; confer, compare IW. 178) AV. etc.
- neuter gender a measure of length Equivalent to 86 An3gulas अङ्गुल s S3ulbas. (Equivalent to 4 Hastas हस्त s or cubits Lexicographers)
- neuter gender a symbolical Name for the number "four" Su1ryas.
- neuter gender for the number "twelve" Jyot.
- neuter gender Name of a particular position or configuration of the moon VarBr2S.
- neuter gender of a particular Na1bhasa नाभस constellation (of the class called Sa1m2khya-yoga सांख्य-योग, when all the planets are situated in two houses) ibidem
- neuter gender of a double S3loka श्लोक or two S3lokas श्लोक s so connected that the sense is only completed by the two together Ra1jat.
- (in compound)
Source: Monier-Williams
