kalpa

[ kuhl-puh ]

/ ˈkʌl pə /

noun Hinduism.

a thousand cycles of Maha Yugas.

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Origin of kalpa

Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1785–95

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Examples from the Web for kalpa

The thirtieth and last praçna of the great Kalpa Sūtra of Āpastamba is a treatise of this class.
A History of Sanskrit Literature|Arthur A. MacDonell
Kalpa, kal′pa, n. a day of Brahma, a period of 4320 million years.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)|Various
Its position, however, within the Kalpa Sūtra of its school is not so fixed as in the two previous cases.
A History of Sanskrit Literature|Arthur A. MacDonell
It forms two (26–27) of the twenty-nine chapters of the Kalpa Sūtra belonging to the school of Hiraṇyakeçin.
A History of Sanskrit Literature|Arthur A. MacDonell

He creates anew when he wakes on the morning of the next Kalpa.
Indian Myth and Legend|Donald Alexander Mackenzie

British Dictionary definitions for kalpa

kalpa

/ (ˈkælpə) /

noun

(in Hindu cosmology) a period in which the universe experiences a cycle of creation and destruction

Word Origin for kalpa

C18: Sanskrit

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