The dharma proper to a given cosmic age. The tradition holds that the duties suited to one yuga differ from those of another (Manusmriti 1.85), one of the ways dharma is treated as varying with time rather than being a single fixed code.

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  There is yuga-dharma , the dharma proper to each cosmic age, asserted in the Manusmriti itself at 1.85, which states plainly that the duties of the first age are not those of the present one.

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