Treta Yuga

[citation needed] The bull of Dharma symbolizes that morality stood on three legs during this period.

[6][better source needed] Yuga (Sanskrit: युग), in this context, means "an age of the world", where its archaic spelling is yug, with other forms of yugam, yugānāṃ, and yuge, derived from yuj (Sanskrit: युज्, lit.

During this period, the Dharma bull, which symbolizes morality, stands on three legs; Śauca (lit.

[a] Treta Yuga is described in the Mahabharata, Manusmriti, Surya Siddhanta, Vishnu Smriti, and various Puranas.

yuga proper) preceded by its yuga-sandhyā (dawn) and followed by its yuga-sandhyāṃśa (dusk)⁠, where each twilight (dawn/dusk) lasts for one-tenth (10%) of its main period.

(70) In the other three ages with their twilights preceding and following, the thousands and hundreds are diminished by one (in each).Surya Siddhanta, Ch.