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Vishnupurana 2.8.71

Viṣṇupurāṇa (critical edition) 2.8.71

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Sanskrit

2.8.71

saṃvatsarādayaḥ pañca caturmāsavikalpitāḥ
niścayaḥ sarvakālasya yugam ity abhidhīyate //

Fifteen days of thirty Muhúrttas each are called a Paksha (a lunar fortnight); two of these make a month; and two months, a solar season; three seasons a northern or southern declination (Ayana); and those two compose a year. Years, made up of four kinds of months, are distinguished into five kinds; and an aggregate of all the varieties of time is termed a Yoga, or cycle. The years are severally called Samvatsara, Parivatsara, Idvatsara, Anuvatsara, and Vatsara. This is the time called a Yuga.

Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition

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