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severely afflicted and driven to practise austerities. Others
desiring heavenly bliss offered sacrifices. Thus men declined
through unrighteousness.
In the Kali Yuga righteousness remained to the extent of
one-fourth only. Practices enjoined by the Vedas, works of
righteousness, and rites of sacrifice ceased. Calamities, diseases,
fatigue, faults, such as anger, &c., distresses, hunger, and fear
prevailed. As the ages revolve righteousness declines, and the
people also decline. When they decay their motives grow
weak, and the general decline frustrates their aims. Muir, I
144.
In the Krita Yuga the duration of life was four thousand
years, in the Treta three thousand, in the Dwapara two thousand
In the Kali Yuga there is no fixed measure. Other passages
of the Maha-bharata indicate " that the Krita Yuga was
regarded as an age in which Brahmans alone existed, and that
Kshatriyas only began to be born in the Treta."
YTJGANJDHABA. A city in the Panjab. A people dwell-
ing there and in the vicinity.
YWAKiLSWA. A king of the Solar race, father of Mandhatri
A legend represents this son as being conceived by and
born of his father.
YUVA-EAJA. 'Young king.' The heir-apparent to a
throne.
YUYUDHANA. A name of Satyaki
YUYUTSU. A son of Dhnta-rashtfra by a Vaisya handmaid.
On the eve of the great battle he left the side of the Kauravas
and joined the PaT^avas. When Yudhi-sh&ira retired from
the world he established Yuyutsu in the kingdom of Indra-
prastha.