Yuba vs Yuga - What's the difference?
yuba | yuga |
Dried tofu skin; the film that forms on top of a vat of boiling soy milk.
(religion, Hinduism) In Hindu theology, an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the Dvapara Yuga, the Treta Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga, with lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years.
* 1991 , Deborah A. Soifer, The Myths of Narasimha and Vamana: Two Avatars in Cosmological Perspective ,
* 1998 , Sean M. O'Shea, Meryl A. Walker, The Millennium Myth: The Ever-Ending Story ,
* 2005 , Stephen Knapp, The Heart of Hinduism: The Eastern Path to Freedom, Empowerment and Illumination ,
As nouns the difference between yuba and yuga
is that yuba is dried tofu skin; the film that forms on top of a vat of boiling soy milk while yuga is (religion|hinduism) in hindu theology, an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages: the satya yuga (or krita yuga), the dvapara yuga, the treta yuga and finally the kali yuga, with lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years.yuba
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(wikipedia)Noun
(-)See also
* okarayuga
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(wikipedia yuga)Alternative forms
* YugaNoun
(en noun)page 147,
- To Biardeau the linear nature of the declining dharma and the cyclical nature of the yugas' make an unhappy marriage, and she ultimately rejects the idea of a true correspondence or rapport between the appearance of Vi??u as avat?ra and the ' yuga cycle.
page 39,
- There is, you will note, a pattern of decreased duration in the yugas'. Moving from the Krta '''Yuga''', the '''yuga''' closest to primordial perfection, each progressive ' yuga grows shorter and shorter, as chaos and decrepitude increase in prominence.
page 386,
- To explain further, there are four ages or millenniums called yugas''. The duration of Treta-yuga''' is 1,296,000 years. The duration of Dvapara-'''yuga''' is 864,000 years. The duration of Kali-'''yuga''', the present age, is 432,000 years, and began 5,000 years ago. These four '''''yugas make one cycle, and one thousand cycles equal one day of Brahma, after which there is a partial annihilation of the universe during Brahma's night. Lord Brahma lives for 100 years, 365 days in each year.