Also -en, -unu. E. Indian. [Hindi yójan, Skr. yójana, yoking, measure of distance (lit. that traveled at one time without unyoking), f. yóga: see YOKE sb.] A measure of distance, varying locally from about four to ten miles.
1784. W. Chambers, in Asiatick Researches (1788), I. 155. South of the Ganges two hundred Yojen.
1784. W. Hastings, ibid., 259. That ancient city [sc. Audh] extended over a line of ten Yojans, or about forty miles.
1820. W. Ward, View Hindoos (ed. 3), IV. 315. The circumference of the earth is 5,059 yojŭnŭs.
1834. Nat. Philos., III. Hist. Astron., App. 122 (U. K. S.). The Brahmins suppose the Earth to be spherical: they suppose the diameter divided into 1600 equal parts called yojanas.
1883. E. Arnold, Ind. Idylls, 171. Who else Could in one day drive fivescore yojanas?
