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Definition of Kalpa
1. n. One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated.
Definition of Kalpa
1. a period of time in Hindu religion [n -S]
Medical Definition of Kalpa
1. One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. at the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated. Origin: Skr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kalpa
Literary usage of Kalpa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Catalogue of the Chinese Translation of the Buddhist Tripitaka, the Sacred by Bunyiu Nanjio (1883)
"... -kalpa.' 1395 'An abridgment showing the law of seven sorts of reciting and
... -vinayaka-kalpa.' 1404 ' A law of reciting and practice of an abridgment ..."
2. A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature So Far as it Illustrates the by Friedrich Max Müller (1859)
"or rather his commentator, quotes works on kalpa in a similar, though not in
exactly the same manner, we must bear in mind that expressions like ..."
3. The Indian Calendar: With Tables for the Conversion of Hindu and Muhammadan by Robert Sewell, Śaṅkara Bālakr̥shṇa Dīkshita (1896)
"According to Indian tradition a kalpa is one day of Brahman, the god of creation.
The Kali- yuga is current at present; and from the beginning of the ..."
4. A Manual of Budhism, in Its Modern Development by Robert Spence Hardy (1880)
"In the Sara-kalpa, 100000 kalpas previous to the Maha Bhadra kalpa, there was one
... In the Manda-kalpa, 30000 kalpas previous to the present kalpa, ..."
5. Sree Krishna, the Lord of Love by Bábá Premánand Bhárati (1904)
"THE kalpa CYCLE. WHEN the Golden, Silver, Copper and Iron Ages, ... The sum of
sins which causes the kalpa dissolution is many times greater than that which ..."
6. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1837)
"even in the commencement of a kalpa bodily existence results from the conditions
of similar existence in a former kalpa *. ..."
7. Indian Wisdom: Or, Examples of the Religious, Philosophical, and Ethical by Monier Monier-Williams (1876)
"They are six in number. Let us consider them (not quite according to the Hindu
order) in the following sequence: i.kalpa; 2. ..."
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