yugyugan.
/jʊɡ/ /ˈjʊɡə/ In Hindu cosmology, any of the four ages in the duration of the world, the four ages comprising 4,320,000 years and constituting a great yuga (Mahāyuga).
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1789 W. Hastings in Asiatick Researches 1 237 The duration of the Historical ages must needs be very unequal..; while that of the Indian Yugs is disposed so regularly and artifically, that it cannot be admitted as natural or probable.
1820 W. Ward View Hindoos (ed. 3) IV. 315 The amount of these four yoogŭs form a mŭhu or great yoogŭ, viz. 4,320,000 years.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 207/2 The Hindu doctrine of the four ages or yuga.
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