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YO-ja-nuh
noun
a general unit of distance, approximately eight kilometers (5 miles) but varying between 6.5 to 16 kilometers
1879The Light of AsiaI shall recite how many sun-motes lie From end to end within a yojana.1900Hindu LiteratureBut Nala answered: 'Far it lies behind; A yojana already we have passed; We cannot turn again to pick it up.'1903On the Indian Sect of the JainasA Palya is a period in which a well, of one or, according to some, a hundred yojana, i.e. of one or a hundred geographical square miles, stuffed full of fine hairs, can be emptied, if one hair is pulled out every hundred years Labels: Epiphanius Wilson, Johann George Buehler, Sir Edwin Arnold
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