LOGOI

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yojanā

yojana n. joining, yoking, harnessing, PārGṛ. ; Hariv.

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1. يْجَنَ

yojana n. joining, yoking, harnessing, PārGṛ. ; Hariv.

2. يْجَنَ

that which is yoked or harnessed, a team, vehicle (also applied to the hymns and prayers addressed to the gods), RV.

3. يْجَنَ

(sometimes m. ; ifc. f(ā). ) a stage or Yojana ( i.e. a distance traversed in one harnessing or without unyoking; esp. a partic. measure of distance, sometimes regarded as equal to 4 or 5 English miles, but more correctly = 4 Krośa s or about 9 miles; according to other calculations = 2 1/2 English

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.