YUGA

[Hindu] One of the four ages of the world into which, according to Hindu cosmology, the mundane time is divided. The names of the four ages are 1) Krita-yuga, 2) Treta-yuga, 3) Dwapara-yuga and 4) Kali-yuga. It is said that Dharma or virtue (which is symbolically represented by a Bull) walks on all the four feet in Krita yuga and with the advent each subsequent Yuga, it loses one foot. Thus, it walks on 3 feet in Treta and 2 feet and Dwapara and so on.