Yuga is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 15 anagrams from letters in Yuga (aguy).
Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1775-85
When the Yuga rises it comes up in a flood, and it falls the same way.
It is well known that the first era in the maha-Yuga is called Sattia Yuga, or the era of truth.
And when the end of the Yuga comes, everybody will be in want.
The poor cow of virtue has suffered still further limitations and has but two legs to stand upon in this Yuga!
And yet, as compared with the whole system described above, Kali Yuga is less than one day in a thousand years.
He is even (to foes), like unto Yama himself at the end of the Yuga!
So they turned back toward the Yuga, on their quest of hate.
And rising into the sky, it seemed like a second sun of exceeding effulgence at the end of the Yuga.
But the trail descended at last into the great valley of the Yuga.
We are now, it is said, at the close of the first five thousand years of Kali Yuga.