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Yuga

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Yu⋅ga

[yoog-uh]
–noun Hinduism.
1. an age of time.
2. any of four ages, the Satya, the Treta, the Dvapara, and the Kali, each worse than the last, forming a cycle due to begin again when the Kali has come to an end.

Origin:
1775–85; < Skt
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Yu·ga   (yŏŏg'ə)   
n.   Hinduism
One of the four ages constituting a cycle of history.

[Sanskrit yugam, yoke, pair, era; see yeug- in Indo-European roots.]
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