Dharmayuga, Dharma-yuga: 5 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Dharmayuga (धर्मयुग).—the Kṛta age; अथ धर्मयुगे तस्मिन्योगधर्ममनुष्ठिता । महीमनुचचारैका सुलभा नाम भिक्षुकी (atha dharmayuge tasminyogadharmamanuṣṭhitā | mahīmanucacāraikā sulabhā nāma bhikṣukī) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 12.32.7.

Derivable forms: dharmayugam (धर्मयुगम्).

Dharmayuga is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms dharma and yuga (युग).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Dharmayuga (धर्मयुग).—n. the first age. Mahābhārata 2, 421; [Harivaṃśa, (ed. Calc.)] 761.

Dharmayuga is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms dharma and yuga (युग).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Dharmayuga (धर्मयुग):—[=dharma-yuga] [from dharma > dhara] n. ‘age of religion’, the Kṛta-yuga, [Harivaṃśa]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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